Word: braine
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Calvert Magruder, Vice Dean of the Law School, was appointed yesterday as General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. He was granted a year's leave of absence and while in Washington will occupy the position vacated last night by William Gorham Rice, Jr., who is also a "brain truster," being a professor on the law faculty of the University of Wisconsin. Rice resigned and will return to his former position...
...pretty generally understood that Richberg is now Washington's No. 1 man. Tugwell fades into the violet distance as his ship fast approaches foreign shores. General Johnson's resignation was probably necessary for the reorganization of the Brain Truster's most lusty child--NRA--now designated NRB after the removal of its appendix (A). The net result of its new democratic set-up is that business men will now have to deal with three department instead of one. The NRB now has an imposing front but it is probably that Richberg will make all final decisions...
...fact that it is written straight, with no scintilla of satire or sentimental sympathy. Foreigners might object to the almost total absence of ideas in the book. To them a U. S. reader could reply that the Midwest is the U. S.'s backbone, not its brain...
...could have in a longer time in the presidential chair and it makes you wonder now any man can call himself well-educated" until he has seen how the other fellow lives. If every captain of industry had to spend an occasional stretch in the ranks. If every Washington brain-truster had to earn his living for a time with his hands instead of his mouth, if every Phi Bete has to earn a portion of his college fees--how much better off all would...
Adding another to the growing list of Harvard men who are going South to the Brain Trust, Alan R. Sweezy '29, instructor and tutor in Economics has received a leave of absence of one half year to continue work in Washington which was started in July, it was revealed today. Sweezy, a former CRIMSON President, and prominent in undergraduate affairs in college, was called to Washington this summer to work upon Social Insurance in connection with the Treasury Department. He has been prominent in his support of the administration this year, being one of the half dozen or more instructors...