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Died. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, 80, longtime (1913-41) Harvard professor of banking and finance, and internationally famed monetary authority; in Boston. "Sound Money" Sprague was an adviser to the League of Nations, the Weimar Republic's Reichsbank, the Bank of England. A Treasury Department brain-truster in 1933, he quit in protest against the New Deal's dollar-devaluation policies, wrote his widely quoted Recovery and Common Sense, advocating lower prices and free competition...
...Stout, and from '47 to '50 travelled all over the country making contacts with former Bund members, racists, and rabble-rousers, and infiltrating the Klan and Gerald L. K. Smith's inner circle, where he had his own private office. "Smith thought I was a bright young Fascist brain-truster," he explains...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, associate professor of History, was toastmaster at the dinner. Other speakers were Governor Paul A. Dever, James Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, and Benjamin V. Cohen, former Roosevelt "brain truster...
...Ford Foundation's second new director, announced last week: Chester C. Davis, 63, onetime Montana farm expert who became an early New Deal brain-truster, served briefly as F.D.R.'s food administrator during World War II, in 1941 was appointed president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis...
...remained to Franklin D. Roosevelt to bring ghostwriting into prominence by employing such eminent men as Judge Samuel Rosenman, Playwright Robert Sherwood, Brain Truster Raymond Moley and Poet Archibald MacLeish. Dean of them all, and perhaps the shrewdest, was the late Charley Michelson, longtime pressagent for the Democratic Party, whose typewriter supplied uncounted Democratic bigwigs with taunts that made a whole generation of Republicans miserable...