Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last the wiles of the ever present New Deal are becoming apparent here in the secluded cloisters of Cambridge. The constant paying out of brain trusters to the gaping jaws of Washington is finally being bemoaned, now that the awful reckoning has at last arrived. The situation at the Law School has really become imminent apparently, for it was found today at registration that there were so few faculty members left to give the courses that a large number were in danger of being omitted. The conditions weren't so bad last year when only a few of the great...
Eastern Locarno. Louis Barthou was born the son of a poor tinsmith. His family scrimped to pay for the education that turned him out a brilliant lawyer. All his life he has been a charmer, naturally eloquent, instinctively elegant, yet with plenty of brain power and force. His rise in the Chamber and through the cabinets of men now mostly forgotten was meteoric. In the year before the War he formed his first Cabinet and as Premier boldly forced through unpopular legislation lengthening the term of French military service. This gave la Patrie immeasurably better trained young men to shoulder...
...Wallace had any hand in pushing this trip to Europe. . . . Neither of us has resigned nor is going to be 'kicked out,' at least for anything we have done so far. . . . This trip is not New Deal stuff, it is in the interests of scientific agriculture." For Brain Truster Tugwell's furtive departure President Roosevelt at Hyde Park had a different explanation: process servers were looking for him in a suit filed against the Department of Agriculture...
Another member of the Harvard faculty will join President Roosevelt's Brain Trust it was learned yesterday when reports that Calvert B. Magruder, Vice Dean of the Law School, has been granted a year's leave of absence, in order that he might accept an appointment by the President as counsel to the National Labor Relations Board...
This opportunity is available every year for one course in the School through the generosity of the late George H. Leatherbee who left a bequest for that purpose in 1913. This year the series of lectures by the ex-"brain-truster" has been received with such enthusiasm that it will be nearly six times as large as usual...