Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cotton Kingdom. He was a strong and early champion of the idea that German imperialism cannot be wholly blamed for the War. Though a Democrat, the new Ambassador is a political unknown holding his first public office. As a college professor he was gleefully welcomed into the Roosevelt "Brain Trust." A relatively poor man, he hopes to get along in Berlin on his $17,500 salary. "After all," said he, "the days of show are over." Last week President Roosevelt also made the following diplomatic appointments which the Senate confirmed: Lincoln MacVeagh of New Canaan, Conn. to be Minister...
...mostly the roughage or bran of the intellectual diet. There is a series of strong arguments supporting the American Congress by F. H. LaGuardia. That self-conscious body is now getting on without his official help. There is an excellent article by A. A. Berle, Jr., member of the "brain-trust," titled, "The High Road for Business," which asks of American business leaders something obviously beyond their power, social responsibility, and this for the purpose of business salvation...
While lawyers wrestle with the immediate problem of what their banking and brokerage clients can or dare do, the Brain Trust has no doubt that, out of the Act, a new and better system will be evolved to supply the financial needs in Industry. With such purposes, neither Professor Frankfurter's ex-pupils nor any good banker quarreled...
When the "brain trust" was being formed during last year's campaign President Roosevelt naturally included the man who had divided Harvard into two camps -Frankfurter and anti-Frankfurters. Anglo-Saxon-minded defenders of common law and the case system of teaching it deplored his long lectures on administrative and constitutional law. The Frankfurters pointed with pride to the way he sent his pupils home to wrangle for weeks over one of his neat, sharp questions. Put in an abrupt, jerky voice, they were usually questions of broad social significance. Public-minded, unselfish, a disciple of Liberals Oliver Wendell...
...United States is just recovering its balance after a series a economic earthquakes", A. A. Berle, Jr. '12, a member of President Roosevelt's "brain trust", told an audience at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Business School on Saturday. "It will be said in years to come that an administration came into office at the precise moment when a crisis almost unparalleled in modern history had reached its peak. It will be pointed out that whenever such a crisis has occurred elsewhere in the world, its swift sequel has been a revolution...