Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Legislature. He graduated from Yale (Class of 1915) with a Phi Beta Kappa, won a lieutenant's commission during the War, got a degree from Columbia University's Law School, has sat in the New York Legislature. Able and up-to-date Republican Rivers promptly adopted a brain trust including Charles E. Mitchell, onetime Minister to Liberia, Oliver Randolph, onetime member of the New Jersey Legislature, and his own brother Dr. Mark E. Rivers, a Republican leader in Harlem...
...pride. . . . Byron died in uremic coma, a not uncommon end for le ban viveur." Christopher Columbus, after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected and his heart enfeebled, Columbus lingered on until . . .he died from cardiac failure due to valvular disease...
...Indiana and Columbia Universities, has since expounded his views in the Christian Science Monitor, New York Evening Post, Washington Post and as banking instructor in Columbia's School of Business. An acquaintanceship with Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley put him on the fringe of the Roosevelt brain trust in 1932, but since the Bank Holiday of 1933 he has denounced & deplored New Deal economics, notably in Roosevelt versus Recovery...
...academic corps of fact & figure men working in Washington under Yale Economist Olin G. Saxon completes the Intelligence Division with which Nominee Landon is moving into his campaign. Republicans who have long sneered at the Roosevelt "brain trust" may be spared some embarrassment by their nominee's tactful word-juggling in referring to his helpers, but the fact remains that he, no less than Franklin Roosevelt in 1932, has been compelled to acknowledge that a Presidential program for the modern U. S. must be the product of many minds. With no other statement in You And I-And Roosevelt...
...play by appointing Administrator Cooke to be chairman of the Great Plains Drought Area Committee of six, including Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins and Resettlement Administrator Rexford G. Tugwell. What play the President would call next for the drought areas depended last week on what this little brain trust hatched out before his trip to the West this month...