Word: braine
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Canada has no New Deal, no NRA, no Brain Trust. Canada did, however, have a Depression. Dominion business is estimated to be at least 33% above the 1933 low. Newsprint to Canada is what automobiles are to the U. S. Dominion newsprint production for the first quarter was 41% above last year, in March was up 53% to the highest figure for the month since...
Alumni instantly let out a loud squeal of rage. Marshal Cutler, who is also a famed brain surgeon, protested feebly, "It seemed to me that Harvard alumni . . . have always stood for the fundamental principles of the right of free speech and the toleration of all beliefs." In a letter to the Harvard Crimson a Jew replied, "Hanfstaengl is the representative of a government which considers the intellectuals the dirt of the earth and free speech a rank poison." From Boston and Manhattan prominent alumni wired their protests to Government officials in Washington...
...Brain Sweat (by John Charles Brownell; produced by James Montgomery & Henry R. Stern). The season's most disagreeable title cloaks one of the few straight Negro comedies ever produced on Broadway. Inoffensive and in spots disarmingly merry. Brain Sweat is concerned with Henry Washington's "projeck." Henry (fat, benign Billy Higgins, nightclub comedian) has not done a lick of work in two years. While his wife and son support him, he has been content to wear a fine patina on the seat of his rocking chair and cogitate means of making some easy money. "Brain sweatin...
While the charges which Dr. Wirt has levelled against the Brain Trust seem at first sight to be an effective bid for publicity, it is becoming apparent that beneath the external hullabaloo there is at least some basis for such an indictment. Felix Frankfurter's "hot dogs," the youthful element which he has introduced into the Roosevelt circle, have been using the word "revolution" with careless abandon. Mr. Richberg in several of his speeches has said we are in the midst of one. People acquainted with debonair Rexford Tugwell, knee deep in ideas for economic planning...
...least disturbing. While it may be trite to repeat that in this country the citizens determine what form of government they shall embrace, this platitude still has a very deep significance. Every man has a right to say what he pleases. If members of the Brain Trust believe in a revolutionary program, they are perfectly justified in holding this conception. But those who are opposed to it certainly have a voice in the decision too. The Wirt charges should show the nation that a definition of the stand of these revolutionary suspects is necessary. TERTIUS...