Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strategists, Managing Editor Roy Roberts and Kansas Manager Lacy Haynes of the Kansas City Star. They knew, too, that, as he grappled with complex national issues, modest, provincial Governor Landon had gladly turned for help on phrases, facts, ideas to the four advisers who, he insists, are not a "brain trust"-Charles Phelps Taft II, Earl Howard Taylor, Ralph West Robey and Fred Donald Enfield...
...lives at the Jayhawk Hotel where the others have their offices, are housed next door to the Executive Mansion. Hard-working and closemouthed, they are not seen much outside home, office or State House. Valiantly doing their bit to dispel the impression that Nominee Landon has copied the Roosevelt brain trust, they also keep out of the nation's eye. There have been no more public statements from them since Charlie Taft's comment on the summons to revolt which Al Smith & Co. sent to the Democratic Convention: "It means a lot of money, but damn few votes...
...often the sharp, shrewd features of "Ray" Moley, got the definite impression that most of the facts and theories which Nominee Roosevelt was expounding on the stump originated in the teeming Moley mind. On March 4, 1933 Dr. Moley went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of State, No. 1 Brain Truster and one of the new President's most potent and intimate advisers...
Three members of his "brain trust"-Charles P. Taft, Ralph Robey and Earl Taylor-arrived from Topeka, to help polish up his July 23 acceptance speech. Senator Carey announced that, though they had not discussed any other solution to the farm problem, he and Nominee Landon had agreed that a permanent system of Federal bounties was to be deplored...
Sting No. 3. The Selassie Brain Trust told everyone that Ethiopia has been "less than half conquered." that there is in the country a native Ethiopian Government with which they are "in communication" wherever it is, and that Ethiopians are still fighting the Italians as hard and as often as they can, considering that they have scarcely any ammunition...