Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood gangster has a right to be. The surprise of the thing, however, comes with the realization that Max Baer is not totally devoid of acting ability; even though a Vanity Fair author once characterized him as "so many pounds of perfectly coordinated muscle, all ably animated by the brain of a ten-year old child," he has outdone himself here it give a performance which you will enjoy. The pictures this week, both of them, are worth seeing...
Through these hectic times Frankfurter has preferred to remain the most powerful member of the "Invisible Brain Trust." Hosts of the younger appointees to legal and administrative positions in the new government agencies owe their appointments to suggestions from Frankfurter. It is through them that his own idees have cropped up so frequently in dispatches from the capital. Many of them belong to the Frankfurter coterie studied under him at the Law School and still keep in regular touch with him. The one piece of work to which Frankfurter's hand was directly applied is the highly controversial Securities...
...Department of Economics, and for that matter no department of the College, has suffered seriously to date from the inroads of the Brain Trust. While Columbia and Cornell have contributed the shining lights among the President's liberal advisers, Harvard has sent only her renowned John H. Williams to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Business School, by way of the Bank of England, proffered and then received back the stormy petrel of inflation, Oliver M. W. Sprague. It remained for the Law School, where liberalism burns with a less frozen flame, to uphold the University's reputation...
...interesting thing is that none of the combatants seem to realize that the reaping of a gold profit from devaluation is not the only means of pulling virtually out of thin air, the means of financing the recovery program. Even the Number one Brain Trustee assumes that the whole program must some day be payed for through taxation, as the War is still being paid for. But by a little cooperation with the Federal Reserve Banks, the Treasury can finance at least part of the program without its costing a cent. The method is equivalent in effect to the issue...
...believe in an apprenticeship education in economics, as well as in other subjects," said Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and present leader of the "brain trust," in an interview with the CRIMSON recently. Among several Harvard economic instructors, it is openly rumored that efforts are being made to induce Tugwell to accept a position on the Harvard faculty in the near future. Similar rumors exist at Washington...