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Salients in the Day's News

BRAIN TRUST SHRINKS

Washington, Feb. 6--Men with "mud on their boots" were in complete command of the AAA tonight after a personal purge turned out half a dozen of the "brain trust" element.

Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford G. Tugwell was spared.

Secretary Henry A. Wallace and AAA Administrator Chester C. Davis, farmers both, fired Jerome N. Frank, AAA chief counsel, and at least three of his "liberal" satellites, none of whom have callouses from a plow handle.

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