Word: brain-trusted
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...alone before the American people. Discussion has just about been suppressed. The Administration's high hand with the Federal Trade Commission has cowed other supposedly bi-partisan commissions, including the Federal Radio Commission. We are threatened with a licensed press and, according to the published writings of the brain-trust, with a regimentation that amounts to slavery. It is discouraging under these conditions, to feel that TIME is failing us. However, we are trying to convince ourselves that the second program was put on the air without your knowledge. An unworthy trick to get a hearing from TIME...
...told of a Harvard professor, now a powerful member of the Roosevelt "Brain-Trust," who a few weeks ago entered on a petty transaction with a small bank near Central Square. The president of the bank sent the customary letter to the professor's regular bankers in Cambridge asking for references and confirmation of the latter's credit. He received the following answer...
...mostly the roughage or bran of the intellectual diet. There is a series of strong arguments supporting the American Congress by F. H. LaGuardia. That self-conscious body is now getting on without his official help. There is an excellent article by A. A. Berle, Jr., member of the "brain-trust," titled, "The High Road for Business," which asks of American business leaders something obviously beyond their power, social responsibility, and this for the purpose of business salvation...