Word: brainstormer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brainstorm of New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, this amendment would withhold federal funds from any school district that refused to obey the Supreme Court decision prohibiting segregation in public schools. Powell argues that no federal money should be spent on segregated school programs because such construction would invite Southern districts to circumvent the law. If federal funds are used to build segregated schools now, Powell suggests, these structures will be illogically situated when desegregation arrives...
...Confidential continues to use the mails and increase its circulation, already the largest in news-stand sales of any magazine in the country. Despite the derogatory comments which the press makes, it appears that Harrison's 1951 brainstorm will net him even more money in the future. The only people who can hurt Confidential are the purchasers of the magazine. That they will cease to buy each copy seems extremely unlikely...
...office, once known as the "shop," is now the "foundry," "store" or "delicatessen." An adman attends "brainstorm sessions" instead of meetings; there, ideas are "pressure cooked," "housebroken," or merely "kicked around." And if no single idea is "bought"-that is, if nobody "gets any nourishment from it"-chances are a bunch of ideas will be "Burbanked," i.e., combined into a hybrid. At such high-level "spitballing sessions" it may be advisable to "pitch up a few mashie shots to see how close we are to the green." Then, having made sure that the scheme has sufficient "protein...