Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hughes's letter refuting the argument that the Court is overburdened (TIME, March 29)-a point on which the President's warmest supporters heartily wish that he had rejected his Attorney General's advice. Come to flay his old chief's plan, onetime No. 1 Brain Truster Raymond Moley next day cried, "The institutions of democracy grow and strengthen only through their use. Let us make democracy work by working through the instruments of democracy. ... I would rather amend and amend and amend than pack and pack and pack." There were already plenty of people...
...Philippines, shares of local companies on the Manila Stock Exchange dropped an average of 12 points. It looked as if President Quezon had sold his country down the river, had done nothing but bring ruin several years closer. Then people in Manila began thinking about Mr. Quezon's brain, and some began to believe that Quezon's understanding with the New Deal might contain a bark worse than its bite. Stock prices recovered...
...Franklin. Roosevelt has the smartest political brain in the U. S., there is no doubt Manuel Quezon has the smartest political brain in the Philippines. Last week Señor Quezon's brain was visiting the U. S., working full speed while its owner was busy in Washington with the Interdepartmental Committee on Philippine affairs. For Mr. Quezon was putting a very delicate case to Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Sayre, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, Brigadier General Creed F. Cox, Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, Paul...
...sing; and he will soon discover that the collection of classical records in the library is the largest of any in the University. The dramatist can find a chance for emoting in the House play, the editorially minded may want to use the Chronicle to relieve his over-burdened brain, while the budding young scientist can feel free to propound whatever theories he wishes in the Lowell House Scientific Society meetings. Perhaps there will be found future Walter Lippmanns among the members of the House Social Science Club...
...There's another method of taking the Teachers' Oath Bill to the people!" stormed Thomas Dorgan, former member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, last night, as he learned that his brain "nightmare", the Teachers' Oath Bill, had been virtually repealed in the House, 111 to 102, in a preliminary rollcall...