Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where the levies will fall. Although Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins is straining to perfect relief plans for the coming winter, nothing has been definitely revealed of how many billions he will spend or in what manner. Plans for NRA's reorganization are being pushed forward-in official obscurity. Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell had been discreetly sent on a junket to Rome (see p. 16); he is not due back in the U. S. until a week after Election Day. Voters everywhere were hearing a great deal about the Administration's past record but as little as possible...
...Italians welcomed U. S. Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell to the 12th biennial general assembly in Rome of the International Institute of Agriculture, a fact-finding body founded under the patronage of King Vittorio Emanuele with cash supplied by an earnest U. S. donor, the late David Lubin. Brain Truster Tugwell, who tousled himself somewhat before the U. S. Senate's inquiry into his beliefs (TIME, April 23), sleeked himself into a faultless cutaway last week and, with a purple violet peeping from his buttonhole, addressed the Institute, which promptly elected him a vice president...
...guard suddenly became aware of one Joe Fatigate, 25, habitual brawler, at the far end of the hall. From Joe Fatigate's forehead projected the bone handle of a penitentiary table knife. The 4-in. blade of the knife was neatly buried within the man's brain...
...second time Tommy Bilodeau was given a full day at quarter, in both the signal drill and scrimmage lineups. Hitherto George Ford has been Bob Haley's relief at quarter, but it now seems certain that Bilodeau has supplanted Ford as the number two brain truster while Ford has become a leading candidate on the left half squad...
...Strauss in "Education and the Flesh" asks very reasonably, if a bit redundantly, for a Harvard that will train its sons to get out into a world full of Hitlers and Brain Trusters and run that world much better than these men are now running it. The central problem of his essay, which may be out roughly as that of "theory" and "practice," of "pure learning" and "applied learning," is, like those Mr. Chase treats, of perennial and inexhaustible interest, and if Mr. Strauss has not solved it (I expect he would hardly claim to have done...