Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system which permitted fraud & folly. After several ridiculous attempts had been made to write the Securities Act it was turned over to Professor Frankfurter, who did not become the New Deal's Attorney General as some had expected, but is nevertheless part of the Brain Trust. Felix Frankfurter, disgusted with much of the "American System," had reason to rejoice last week in the almost unanimous opinion that his bill would change, quite beyond recognition, the whole machinery of finance...
Notch No. 2. Because his Secretary of the Treasury is an industrialist and his Undersecretary, his Governor of the Federal Reserve Board and his Comptroller of the Currency are lawyers, President Roosevelt has long felt the lack of a first-rate banking brain to steer him through the technicalities of a managed currency. Last week he secured such a pilot in the person of Oliver Mitchell Wentworth...
...slow in getting under way. being still excited over the "foreign entanglements'' which the U. S. had incurred by its Disarmament policy. (On the day when its front page "bared" the "Morgan deals." the New York Evening Journal's editorial page carried a Brisbanal sermon on Brain v. Brawn.) But presently Publisher Hearst crashed out with a signed editorial for the front pages of his morning papers. Theme (from Democrat Raskob's reply to Morgan's invitation to buy stock on the "inside") : "I hope I will be able to reciprocate...
...fights before he lost his first one, to Lightweight Jack Berg two years ago. Before that he had been a newsboy in Havana, learned to box by studying cinemas of Panama Joe Gans. Equipped with 365 suits, $65,000 in Havana real estate and a magnificent fighting brain so single-tracked that it so far contains only a few dozen English words, Kid Chocolate makes himself a nuisance to his indulgent Cuban manager, Luis Gutierrez, by misbehaving instead of training. After a month's rest, Champion Chocolate will go abroad for four bouts, one of them a return match...
Five thousand persons watched various outdoor sports at West Point last Saturday but no one watched a dozen cadets and 13 Harvardmen hunched in a West Point classroom, engaged in an abstruse brain contest. The teams were to solve ten out of eleven problems posed by President Arnold Dresden of the Mathematical Association of America. The size of the teams did not matter-the side which produced the ten best sets of answers would win. First day the teams worked over such easy matters as how many times two integral calculi go into four differential calculi. They quit early...