Until last week there were, under the two "Generals" and eight Secretaries of the Cabinet, only two Undersecretaries who outranked the 21 assistant secretaries of the sub-Cabinet. One was William Phillips at the State department; the other was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge at the Treasury (see above). Last week President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination for a third Undersecretary—this time of Agriculture. Named for the job was young, handsome, curly-headed Rexford Guy Tugwell, topman of the Brain Trust.
One good reason for the appointment was the President's desire to increase the...
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