Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Tugwell's tongue won the Brain Trust fame with the public, another, even more voluble tongue, won the Brain Trust fame in many a Washington drawing room-the tongue of Jerome Frank. That restless young Jewish lawyer-who was a brain truster to Mayor Dever's Chicago reform administration; whose early drawing room sallies were in the homes of such Midwest literary liberals as Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, Harriet Munroe; whom Communist Emma Goldman calls "Jerry"; whose shrewdness won him a place in the Manhattan law firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy; whose brilliant articles on judicial psychology...
...murky evening last week a mimeographed sheet announced a reorganization of AAA. Mr. Frank, who had shocked so many Tories, was shocked. He and his friends were fired without warning. Frederick Howe was demoted. The Brain Trust was so completely taken by surprise that it had no rebuttal. And Dr. Tugwell, alas, was in Florida. Only next day did the full significance of the event dawn upon Washington...
Secretary Wallace and Administrator Davis received a hundred newshawks. For an hour the two were cross-examined. They spoke with circumspection but they denied nothing. The Brain Trusters of AAA had been ousted because Messrs. Davis and Wallace had had enough of them. The action had been discussed for two months...
...significance was quite unmistakable : with Franklin Roosevelt's consent the biggest single bevy of Brain Trusters in the Administration had been quietly but firmly turned out as troublemakers...
...designed by Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia. Cadet James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose military career ended when he was under the delusion that silicon was a gas, designed the buttons that still grace the coatees of West Point Cadets. Most of the innumerable Nazi uniforms sprang from the fertile brain of Hermann Wilhelm Goring. Lieut-General Sir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden- Powell, authority on pig-sticking and defender of Mafeking, designed the uniforms of the Boy Scouts...