Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dismissing the prisoner, Mr. Justice Charles said almost shyly: "May I, dropping the judge for a minute and as one man to another, appeal to you to put this maggot out of your brain and try to be a happy fellow? You are man enough to do it. Unless you wish to end in a madhouse, the sooner you depart from the belief you have been nurturing in your brain the belter...
...Bishops, Senators, wrestlers, criminals . . . everybody give psychiatrists their brains for dissecting after death," last week suggested Professor Adolf Meyer, Johns Hopkins' famed Swiss-born psychiatrist. Professor Meyer. 67, a bearded didactic Zwinglian* called it "a crime against civilization that we let any brain pass unexamined when it has done its life work...
...Nevertheless, there remain grave dangers inherent in a civil service when the methods of selecting its members has been as informal as that of the Administration during the past eleven months. The President has surrounded himself with a new hierarchy of civil servants, starting at the top with the Brain Trust and proceeding on down to the lower classes of civil servants under the banner of the National Recovery Administration, the A.A.A., and others. These extra workers were chosen without aid of any competitive system of examinations. With the ranks of the civil service steadily swelling, it is obvious that...
...passport, applied for permission to re-enter the U. S. for 90 days. She wanted to visit friends in Rochester where 45 years ago she was a seamstress in a clothing factory. While the State Department was considering her case, she said last week: "It is not in the brain work of capitalists to make much improvement for the masses, but the United States has done a great many things to surprise the world. . . . Frank- lin Roosevelt is the first President to recognize that the masses have a right on the table of life, and he's only just...
Albert K. Eaton, instructor in economies, has resigned from Harvard in order to engage in research for the Deputy Minister of Finance of the Canadian government. Eaten will take part in a Canadian "Brain Trust," but since Eaton's position is permanently assured by civil service examinations, it differs from that of President Roosevelt's advisers in Washington...