Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand gun salute to that brilliant Princeton brain which conceived the idea of organizing the Veterans of Future Wars, and the short-lived sister organization, the Gold Star Mothers of the Veterans of Future Wars (TIME, March...
Neither idle rich, idle Brain Trusters nor idle politicians would be inoffensive to 1936 public taste. Therefore as the President fished from his modest yacht in the Bahamas last week he had with him only his military and naval aides, his physician and two relatives. One was his firstborn, James. The other was his 72-year-old Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, onetime president of the Wabash R. R., onetime (1914-18) member of the Federal Reserve Board, one of whose current hobbies is Washington's Park & Planning Commission and whose most recent job, given him fortnight...
...bald Chairman Robert L. Doughton nor any of his colleagues were fooled by these solemn delegations of power. They knew that whatever bill they recommended and the House passed would, as always, be rewritten by a captious Senate. This relieved North Carolina's Doughton of much responsibility, more brain work. His chief job was not to make a tax bill but to make haste...
This blast against President Roosevelt's proposed tax on undistributed corporation profits (TIME, March 9, 16) issued last week not from a Republican diehard or frantic corporation executive, but from Today's Editor Raymond Moley, once officially and still unofficially a potent ganglion in the collective Roosevelt brain...
...once a group of Congressmen found themselves in agreement with a Brain Truster. President Roosevelt and Treasury experts had argued that to adjust the proposed tax so that corporations might put by some of their profits as a cushion against hard times would decrease its yield below the required $620,000,000. Last week the House Ways & Means subcommittee, assigned to write the bill, whipped out a graduated schedule of rates which it claimed would permit corporate cushions and still bring in all the money the President and Treasury wanted. Its scale: a 15% tax on the first...