Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian autarchy. The Grain War, the reclamation of swamps, and the introduction of widespread electrification may have been worthy of the New Rome, but they have not eliminated Italy's dependence on foreign markets in which to sell her products and receive supplies. Typical of many of Mussolini's brain-children, autarchy has made a better showing on paper and on the rostrum than in the drear light of economic reality. CASTOR...
...first real tilt between the "Brain Trust" and the so called "practical" wing of the Roosevelt administration has re-suited in a shift of governmental agencies so as to take due account of the temperamental difficulties that had come into conflict with each other...
When the controversy was carried to the White House, the President had precisely the same kind of problem as he had when Professor Moley and Secretary Hull clashed. In this instance he was as anxious as in the first case to preserve the member of the "Brain Trust" in question. Mr. Moley finally was transferred to another department and then resigned. Mr. Tugwell has been mentioned as possibly being useful in another part of the government, but there is no need of change now that the codes which he and Mr. Peek quarreled about have been transferred to Mr. Johnson...
...that Mr. Peek will join Mr. Johnson. Anyway it has been demonstrated that practical business folks and the "Brain Trust" do not harmonize very well and that Mr. Roosevelt will have to find some better way of keeping his official family in peaceful cooperation in the future if he expects to retain both kinds of advisers...
Many of the published versions of the Tugwell-Peek row indicated that the "Brain Trust" was on the point of revolt. The opposite has been true. The administrators and government officials who are out of sympathy with the "Brain Trust's" usurpation of power and authority were the rebels...