Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phillips at the State department; the other was Thomas Jefferson Coolidge at the Treasury (see above). Last week President Roosevelt sent to the Senate the nomination for a third Undersecretary-this time of Agriculture. Named for the job was young, handsome, curly-headed Rexford Guy Tugwell, topman of the Brain Trust...
...join the New Deal. As Assistant Secretary of Agriculture he has been drawing $7,500 per year (less 10% Federal pay cut); as Undersecretary he will be paid $10,000 (less 10%). Another reason was the President's obvious intention to retort to the clamorous criticism of this Brain Truster by some special mark of public preference for him and his services...
Aniseikonia is Greek for "unequal images." When the sufferer looks at any object, the image reflected in the retina of one eye differs in size and shape from that in the other. The struggle of the brain's visual centre to fuse these two images brings aches, pains and frazzled nerves. Sometimes it cannot fuse them...
Jaunty Jim Farley, whose genial optimism and bulky presence were so much in evidence during the last campaign was labeled recently by Mr. A. A. Berle, young intellectual and late member of the Brain Trust, as "not a particularly brilliant politician." Further he stated that Mr. Roosevelt was for the most part his own manager in the presidential campaign and that had Mr. Farley "Gone fishing for flounders" the outcome would have been the same...
Washington, April 24 (UP)--President Roosevelt today demonstrated his faith in Rexford Guy Tugwell, No. 1 Brain Truster--and according to Dr. William A. Wirt, master mind "Red Plotter" -- by advancing him to the new position of Undersecretary of Agriculture...