Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pride to the fact that, in the two years and four months since he took office, the breath of scandal has blown but two piddling puffs on his Administration. First puff was the flatulent product of that impressionable Gary, Ind. school superintendent, Dr. William Wirt. whose charges that the Brain Trust was all but in the pay of Moscow made a farcical Congressional investigation last year (TIME, April 23, 1934). Second puff flurried up portentously fortnight ago when Ewing Young Mitchell, whom the President had to oust as Assistant Secretary of Commerce because he would not resign, charged that...
...Raymond Moley was presented with a bust of himself by the management for having operated Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis for a year at a profit. Asked if the cocktail lounge were responsible for having turned the St. Regis' ledgers from red to black, the one-time Brain Truster replied: "Lincoln once sold liquor in his general store, but I think my establishment is much classier." With a $5,000,000 mortgage on the property, Mr. Moley's good friend Vincent Astor year ago threw the St. Regis into receivership (TIME, June 18, 1934), last week bought...
Minister of Finance: Senator Marcel Régnier of the moderate Left, Budget Reporter since 1933 and a great croaker for economy but not considered to have a topnotch fiscal brain...
...office, Mr. Hearst's contact men, James T. Williams Jr. and John A. Kennedy, used to call often on Mr. Garner. Now their visits are few & far between. Nominee Roosevelt made a different mistake. He feared that his running mate might make the ticket look ridiculous. So the Brain Trust sent a bright journalist, Charles Hand, to act as censor of the Garner utterances. To a man who had been a practicing politician when Roosevelt was in short pants, this was the ultimate insult...
...Brain Squeeze. When they suddenly sit up, stand up, drop into a chair, fall into bed or tumble, some people get dizzy, may even develop headaches. Immediate cause: sudden shifting of blood and other fluids within the brain, skull and spinal column. These squeeze the brain unduly. Usual underlying cause: hardening of the arteries and failure of the subtle body mechanism which should instantaneously regulate blood pressure and circulation...