Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although currently a very touchy subject among Washington legislators, old-age pensions--and particularly the Townsend Plan--have become a very real factor in the national political arena. Dynamite because of the emotional fervor of its followers, the aged Californian's celebrated brain-child has caused, and is still causing, many a headache. An investigation into the politics played in the last congressional election is still making headlines today, and although it is doubtless too much to expect that any really objective wisdom can be shown in such an atmosphere, one nevertheless hopes that before long Congress will evolve...
Gilded Idea. More continuously than any other New Deal experiment, CCC has had the respect of foes as well as friends of Franklin Roosevelt. This is a striking fact, for unlike dozens of projects which Franklin Roosevelt has sponsored, CCC came not from the Brain Trust but from his own head. A good guess (by ex-Brain Truster Raymond Moley) is that it was planted there by Harvard's late, great Philosopher William James, who used to lecture Franklin Roosevelt & classmates on the morals...
Among the swarming professional Brain Trusters, CCC's director was as a potato bug among dragonflies. "Why, most of my clerks are better educated than I am," Robert Fechner used to say. He quit school when he was 16, worked in a railroad machine shop, then wandered to Mexico, Central and South America and back again as an itinerant machinist. He fought through a losing general strike in 1901 for the 9-hour day, was elected in 1913 to the general executive board of the A. F. of L. machinists' union. He sandwiched in a year...
...autopsy Assistant Medical Examiner Charles Herman Hochman reported that he had found malformation of the cerebellum (section of the brain controlling movement) as well as an undeveloped thyroid gland, and an enlarged thymus. The thymus gland is found only in young children, normally disappears at adolescence...
After some uncertainty over nomenclature, Dr. Broom has settled on the exciting names Plesianthropus ("Near-Man") and Paranthropus ("Beside-Man") for his finds. Their brain capacities were small, 600 and 440 cc. as against about 1,400 cc. for modern man. But when Dr. Broom had had a good look at their teeth he sent excited reports to the British journal Nature claiming that these old creatures must be assigned a place very close to the point of human divergence from the parent primate stock...