Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week readers of the enterprising New York World Telegram were given an advance glimpse of the Roosevelt program in the making through an interview with one of its collaborators. A liberal professor of economics at Columbia University, 41-year-old Dr. Rexford Guy Tugwell is a member of the "Brain Trust" which helped to steer Mr. Roosevelt through the campaign to the election. Since then Dr. Tugwell has been in constant, confidential communion with the President-elect. Though he spoke only for himself, Dr. Tugwell was presumably giving an authoritative reflection of the Roosevelt mind when he set forth...
...Roosevelt conferred with four advisers: Norman Hezekiah Davis, who, some think, will be the next Secretary of State, and others, the next Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; American Car & Foundry's William Hartman Woodin whom some dopesters put into the Treasury; the "brain trust," Professors Moley & Tugwell. Also aboard was Rear Admiral Gary Travers Grayson, who took President Wilson's stomach pump ; way and made him exercise, to discuss the inauguration plans...
...meeting disbanded at 12:35. Off went Professor Moley of the Roosevelt "brain trust" to assemble preliminary data in the State and Treasury Departments for his chief. Secretary Stimson vanished to summon Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador, tell him what had happened. On the train taking him South, the President-elect reflected with satisfaction on the Red Room conference. It was not up to him and his incoming Congress to see that, in the event the British burden of $4,398,000,000 indebtedness is eased, the U. S. would receive some compensating advantages. Possible bargains which...
Handsome Dr. Cushing's 37 years in medicine have included practically all that is known about scientific surgery of the brain...
...novels, turned to Outlines of History, Sciences of Life, Salvagings of Civilization. Not since Meanwhile (1927) has he written a book that even he would call a novel. With The Bulpington of Blup, which he describes as the "adventures, poses, stresses, conflicts and disaster in a contemporary brain," Novelist Wells is back in his old wallow, dredging up all the old exhibits...