Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Ambassador Welles thought of President Grau's- government last week was clear enough when Adolf A. Berle Jr., the Roosevelt brain trusty sent to Havana last month, returned to Washington. "It is not a government but a shell," said Mr. Berle, "and not a promising one. . . . There are no laws, no courts. Nobody pays taxes because he can't be sure they won't be collected a second time by a new government. There is order without law because the Cubans are a friendly people. . . . The situation in Cuba is a kind of passive anarchy...
Yale University inaugurated its version of the House Plan-seven colleges in costly quadrangles given by Edward Stephen Harkness. Among Yale's new professors are famed Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing and James Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll of London who succeeds George Pierce Baker in the Drama School. Yale reshuffled its graduate courses, distributing among its professional schools the degrees in Music, Public Health, Engineering, Drama and Architecture which were formerly offered by the Graduate School...
...student body. In view of the air of icy and remote scientific raptness with which the press has invested him, this comes as a pleasure to undergraduates of all ranks, and as a welcome settlement to the small vexing half-questions in the rear of the student brain...
Died, Robert C. Reid, 50, San Francisco businessman, brother-in-law of Governor James Rolph Jr. of California; when he leaped 14 stories from San Francisco's Balfour Building. He left a note: "I have felt my brain deteriorating...
Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler was knocked unconscious, suffered concussion of the brain, a bruised leg and minor abrasions, when a rear tire blew out on the automobile in which he was driving with his family to Washington, tumbling it twice over into a ditch near Glasgow, Mont...