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Word: braine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jingle might go on indefinitely, with Senator David Reed whose scalp was the biggest snagged by Franklin Roosevelt in the election, with Schoolman William A. Wirt who found a Red conspiracy in the Brain Trust; with Banker Jackson Eli Reynolds who made peace between financiers and the White House; with Airman Charles Augustus Lindbergh who protested against airmail cancellations; with others & others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man of the Year, 1934 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...brain that's ample, a true example of brilliant mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: White House Tunes | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...every opportunity the Roosevelt Brain Trust has been trying to intimidate Japan by bluff," boomed Rengo. "We have dealt a severe blow and stupefaction to the American Secretary of the Navy, Swanson. . . . The morale of Japanese sailors is far superior to that of American sailors. . . . Japan is ready to meet any contingencies and is sufficiently prepared for any changes arising from termination of the Washington Treaty. . . . The shipbuilding possibilities of America are far inferior to those of Japan,* and it would not be easy for the United States to rise to the Japanese level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wings for Tigers | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

Divorced. James Paul Warburg, vice chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co., sometime Brain Truster, lyricist ("Can't We Be Friends?"); by Katharine Swift Warburg, composer for his lyrics; in Reno. Grounds: extreme cruelty, uncontested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 31, 1934 | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...sequel to The Invisible Man but a gloomy war film, in which Rains impersonates a hapless journalist named Paul Verin, who is harassed by shyness, poverty and the irony of fate. The title is a pretentious figure of speech. Properly speaking, Verin reclaims not his head but his brain. He is hired to write pacifist articles which make his employer famed. When the employer, after having betrayed Verin by entering a deal with munitions manufacturers, begins making motions at Verin's pretty wife (Joan Bennett), it is the last straw. Verin decapitates him and goes to see his lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 24, 1934 | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

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