Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long days and nights Senator Wagner, Democratic expert on unemployment relief legislation, had been working over a National Recovery Act with Budget Director Douglas, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Dickinson and other members of the "Brain Trust." Their White House instructions were to combine in one measure a broad program for public works to make new jobs and the "partnership" idea for Federal supervision of industrial production, prices, wages and working hours as enunciated by the President in his broadcast fortnight ago. The bill would be the Administration's substitute for the crude null and minimum...
...Rivera and his assistants became aware of a changed attitude in Rockefeller Center. The number of guards was increased. When Rivera brought men to photograph his fresco, they were sent away. Personal feuds sprang up between the Rockefeller Center guards and Rivera's assistants. A guard threatened to brain an assistant if he tried to take a snapshot. Rivera's heavy scaffolding was replaced by a movable scaffold. Rivera draped tracing paper over the outside railing, screening the platform from the guards, and a woman assistant took a camera from under her skirt to photograph, close up, part...
...President Roosevelt will permit his secretariat and close advisers to write for publication. McNaught Syndicate last week announced that Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley, head of the "Brain Trust," would supply a weekly 800-word article entitled "'The State of The Nation...
...alcohol. Dr. Gettler. a deliberate, inquisitive investigator, taught a pack to get drunk in order to find a measure of intoxication in man. Some individuals burn up alcohol faster than others. The quick-burners can drink much more than the others before getting drunk. But every drunk's brain is wet with alcohol. Thus Dr. Gettler could tell that Ruth Snyder besotted her husband before she and Judd Gray crushed his skull with a sash weight (TIME. April 4, 1927, et seq.}. Driving from the crime she tried to enhearten Judd Gray with a slug of whiskey. "That...
...convenient way of infecting syphilitics with malaria begins with an operation on a mosquito, reported Dr. Bruce Mayne. U. S. Public Health entomologist in Washington last week. (Malarial fever raises the syphilis victim's temperature and remits, sometimes cures, the paresis caused by advanced syphilis of the brain -TIME, Feb. 20.) Heretofore it has been necessary to induce malarial mosquitoes to bite paretics. Live mosquitoes are difficult to handle, often die in transit, sometimes escape with consequent danger to the community. Dr. Mayne. who learned all about mosquitoes in England. India. the Philippines and the U. S., found that...