Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asked to transport is legally produced, and must report monthly. ¶ Last week President Roosevelt had a slight cold. He had succeeded in losing two of the seven excess pounds he picked up on his vacation. ¶ Back from the London Conference, Assistant Secretary of State Moley, No. I Brain Truster, made a bee line to the White House to report to his chief. At the door newshawks upset him with questions about his expense account. London dispatches told how the U. S. Embassy had received bills totaling some $3,000 for Mr. Moley and Herbert Bayard Swope, his traveling...
...more radical Brain Trusters pressed the President with this counterargument: "The upturn is largely due to anticipation of heavy Federal spendings on public works. If the program is now curtailed the psychological props will be pulled out from under recovery. Industrial production is already outrunning wages. By spending $3,300,000,000 quickly and widely the Government will boost the public's consuming power, help it to overtake production...
...this time Conference stenographers and pages had been warned by the Secretariat that their jobs might not outlast the week. Mr. Hull made clear that a brief adjournment would not do. The Conference must either close up tight or go definitely on. The President, still without consulting his Brain Trust, began to draft in the White House a second message to the Conference. Amid his labors he called up Secretary Hull for an extra secret talk. In London, when U . S. Banker-expert James P. Warburg entered the room in which Mr. Hull was telephoning, a meaning jerk...
...Subcommittee 36 of the Economic Committee last week unanimously resolved to promote a study of diseases of the coconut palm. Equally unimportant to most delegates seemed the sailing from England last week of No. 1 Brain Trusty Raymond Moley, whose visit was a fizzle from the Conference viewpoint since it turned out that he, hailed on his arrival in London as "Moley, Moley, Moley, Lord God Almighty." did not in fact come empowered to speak with authority for President Roosevelt...
First was Savings Banks Trust Co.. capitalized at $107,500,000 on which the R. F. C. on the recommendation of Brain-trusty Adolf Augustus Berle Jr., put up $50,000,000 and the savings banks the rest. Banks which own stock in the trust company may, should the need arise, discount their bonds at S. B. T. just as a commercial member bank discounts its assets at the Federal Reserve. And S. B. T. itself can obtain Federal Reserve credit...