Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Estelle Hughes, another "cabaret hostess," left the Red Dot Café with a sailor and a jockey, wound up at dawn on the lawn of the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway station. There was a bullet through her brain and her skirt had been pulled up over her head. Police arrested the jockey. At the dead woman's rooming house, her 9-year-old daughter was dressed in an Indian suit, wailing for her mother to take her out to see the parades...
Rockefeller Center, employing hundreds of elevator boys, had no labor trouble at all during the recent strikes. Naturally any man with the brain-power of a glow-worm, with the heart of a dead beetle, or with te liberalism of a hard- shelled clam, will want to know the reason for the servile degeneracy of the Center masses. Have they upside-down stomachs, weak knees, brains like boiled cauliflowers, or no guts at all? Or perhaps the trouble is not physical, but moral and spiritual...
...specific purpose of taxing the people to the point where they were either paupers or thieves. Lincoln knew that patronage was the greatest enemy of all governments. . . . Would that we had a man like Lincoln in the White House today. If we did, he would never allow a brain-trusters' creed to teach the doctrine that you can boondoggle yourself back to prosperity...
...Archer not only advocates the creation of an international money to be called "europa," but has had some of it printed and spends it successfully in Le Puy, where shopkeeper constituents have faith in Felix. In some respects a highly skilled and intellectual man of "Brain Trust" calibre, Deputy Archer has to his credit the invention of several models of quick-firing French cannon esteemed by the Army...
...well with the U. S. economic system. Starting with the farm debt problem in Utah, this Republican banker-industrialist groped outward toward the larger questions of unemployment and insecurity as it developed in the early years of Depression, arriving independently at the same conclusions reached by the Brain Trust during the Roosevelt campaign. Few days before March 4, 1933, Mr. Eccles laid before a Senate committee a plan, which turned out to be nothing less than a detailed blue print of the New Deal. Only one Eccles' suggestion has not materialized-official cancellation of War Debts. Money Managers. Supposedly...