Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City Hospital. It includes two wards for neurological patients, laboratories for research, and an operating suite. With the assignment of Dr. Putnam to the unit, additional funds from the Harvard Medical School will be applied to the work there, which will give new impetus to the study of these brain disorders...
...School recently concluded a five-year survey of the crime problem in Boston, with a view to recommending criminological and penological reform. The Medical School has just announced a discovery concerning the nature of filterable viruses, responsible for many contagious diseases. Harvard has contributed its share of "brain-trusters," with Professor James B. Williams a special adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, with Dr. John B. Crane a special investigator for the Airmail committees of Congress, and with Dr. Edward Chamberlin assisting the Railroad Coordinator. Lecturers have discussed the New Deal in its economic, legal, and political...
...likewise leaves a strong impression of being all experiment in subject matter and in attitude. In inclines one to believe--and to hope fervently, for March's possibilities are manifestly great that it is the product of an undecided but health mind, not of the sort of diseased brain which produced "Sanctuary...
Last week while the President waited for Congress to start its tariff battle, he went ahead with his other foreign trade plans. George N. Peek, who got out of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration because he felt that the U. S. farmer would be the loser by Brain Truster Tugwell's plans for restricting production, was brought back into the Administration fold on his own terms. He agreed to head the Export-Import Bank founded to promote Russian trade. Later he was also expected to take command of two other unformed banks, one to promote trade with Cuba, the other...
...Columbia University, that yeasty pot of progressive ideas, President Roosevelt dipped such potent Brain Trusters as Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (see p. 55), Abraham S. Hewitt, Leo Wolman, Blackwell Smith. But Columbia was still left with a good supply of bright young professors who were disgruntled with the old order, passionately dedicated to the new. Last week many of them moved in a body to Cleveland, where the Progressive Education Association and the National Education Association's Department of Superintendence were convening. There they planted in the educational world the same kind of ideas which...