Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although these are virtually all whom the American Hebrew considers worthy of notice, there are still others, most of them young, and in nominally unimportant positions. Example: Benjamin Victor Cohen, 40, a Brain Trust attorney who is PWA's assistant general counsel. He had a large hand in drafting the Stock Exchange Control Bill and, contrary to all rules, sat on the floor of the House during consideration of that measure to prompt its "sponsors" in debate. Not until his presence seemed likely to cause a Republican stir did he retire. Besides Cohen, there are others like...
Caught in a forged chain of circumstantial evidence, Asther is convicted, sentenced to hang. Because of his wife's grief Kruger relents, tells police they have the wrong man, puts a bullet into his brain. Ably acted and directed, The Crime Doctor is noteworthy for the reptilian restraint with which Criminologist Kruger, without trying to trick his audience, commits his murder...
...Governor of New York. And the President's friend, Raymond Moley, took occasion in an address to the Advertising Club of New York to belittle the radicalism of the Administration's program by asserting flatly that: 1) the essentials of NRA had been proposed not by the Brain Trust but by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce; 2) exchange regulation "will hurt nobody except those who should be hurt...
...their business. Armaments are their stock in trade; governments are their customers; the ultimate consumers of their products are, historically, almost as often their compatriots as their enemies. That does not matter. The important point is that every time a burst shell fragment finds its way into the brain, the heart, or the intestines of a man in the front line, a great part of the $25,000, much of it profit, finds its way into the pocket of the armament maker...
Benedict Einerson, University of Chicago alumnus now the holder of a Stirling fellowship at Yale, has been named the thirteenth member of President Lowell's last scholarly brain-child, the junior Society of Fellows. Next September he will come to Harvard, here to begin a three-year period of creative scholarship...