Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's casting intuition, Kay Brannan goes about reforming her oafish Boston scion until, instead of divorcing her to marry the lecherous debutante (Binnie Barnes) who had been his fiancée, he is ready to sober up and settle down to work as a brain surgeon. Best shot: The Captain (Edgar Kennedy) of Dr. Dakin's yacht showing Kay Brannan how to steer...
...taxpayer should not be sunk in the briny waters of Passamaquoddy and withheld from the Justice Department's Bureau of Information at the same time. We are living in an administration of unprecedented liberality with public money and unwieldy bureaucracies. The alphabet has been twisted beyond recognition and 'Brain Trusters' have played havoc with age old American institutions, but the one shining light of usefulness and of service to the public is the "G" men under the leadership of Mr. Hoover. The American public owes it to itself to see that nothing is allowed to interfere with the work...
...balanced budget", has been drilled into the consciousness of the Congress for some time. Less spending, less appropriations, less deficits, less "extraordinary" expenditures;--all these have now become the key note of congressional legislation. The President, far from being bitterly disappointed over the treatment afforded his brain-children, has realized for some time that there is a strong sentiment in the direction of economy, and is probably delighted that this pre-election liability is off his mind...
...difference between the new G.O.P. research council and the New Deal's Brain Trust is that the Republican group has been chosen merely to collect information and publish factual results based on research studies, while the Brain Trust is a group which administers a series of preconceived ideas. Only research and fact finding will be the function of the newly formed body
...Alvan Tracy Simonds, a topnotch U. S. capitalist with a brain. A member of the Simonds Saws family, he is president of prosperous Simonds Saw & Steel Co. of Fitchburg, Mass. Six years ago he and his two brothers decided to put their century-old business into an astonishing new factory: one five-acre room without windows. Executives and machines were to work side by side, their noises deadened by sound-absorbing ceilings; machines were to be bright orange against black floors to prevent accidents by making everything conspicuous; walls and ceilings, part blue to reflect ultraviolet rays, part green...