Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Head Janizaries. The early Brain Trust - Professors Moley, Tugwell, Warren, Berle, et al. - were economists. Among the Janizaries named above, not one is an economist. They are executives (Hopkins, Ickes), high-grade political go-betweens (Keenan, Niles, Son James) and smart lawyers (Jackson, Corcoran & Cohen). Among the President's original close advisers last winter were left only two economists, Adolf A. Berle Jr. (who resigned last fortnight†) and Leon Henderson, now attached to the Monopoly Investigation, member of the commission whose report last week on consumer incomes (see p. 59) is red-hot campaign ammunition. Only other original...
News that motor trucks can now be made to run on kindling wood instead of gasoline reached Joseph Stalin some time ago, fired the Dictator's keen brain. The system was pioneered in Italy and last year Benito Mussolini ordered all busses in the Kingdom converted to burn wood...
Eoanthropus dawsoni (Piltdown man), of broad forehead, thick bones, human brain case and apelike teeth, who lived in Sussex, England in the early Pleistocene days. Rambling Lawyer Charles Dawson discovered the Piltdown remains...
Sinanthropus pekinensis (Peking man), of receding, apelike chin and human brain case and teeth, who is approximately the same age as Pithecanthropus. His skull was discovered near Peking in 1929 by Chinese Anthropologist...
Divorced. Rexford Guy Tugwell, original Brain Truster, now chairman of New York's City Planning Commission; by Florence Arnold Tugwell; in Yerington, Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty. Meanwhile, the Tugwells' older daughter, Tanis, 21, denied she was engaged to 22-year-old Sevier ("Stub"') Whatley, son of a one-time Tennessee coal miner, who took out a license to marry...