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...financial job of Wall Street- president of the New York Stock Exchange. To the general public, which had heard rumors that the Exchange was considering for its first paid president such assorted personages as North Carolina's onetime Governor O. Max Gardner ex-Brain Truster Raymond Moley, and University of Chicago President Robert Hutchins, this was something of a surprise. To Wall Street, however, it seemed the logical climax of the liberal Putsch which has conquered the Exchange in the last six months...
...peace. In 1916 he was consulting strategist of the he-kept-us-out-of-war campaign in which Wilson was reelected, again a diplomat during the War and early League of Nations days, was estranged from Wilson in the latter days of the Administration. More influential than any brain truster of Franklin Roosevelt, Colonel House never held an elective office...
Meanwhile Mr. Ickes, who has been irritated by the delay in approving Mr. Burlew, thought he had discovered who was egging the Senators on. Since 1935 Charles West, smart and sharp-nosed Brain Truster, has been doing odd jobs for President Roosevelt in Congressional cloakrooms. For a while he was on the payroll of the Farm Credit Administration, but for over two years he has held the title of Under Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Ickes hates to have anyone in his office who is not working for him. Mr. West has been at loggerheads with Mr. Ickes ever since...
...Solicitor General, vacated by Stanley Reed's appointment to the Supreme Court. Bob Jackson accepted on the understanding he would be allowed to name his own successor as chief trustbuster to the Department of Justice. But he accepted against the advice of his good & liberal friend, Brain-truster Thomas ("The Cork") Corcoran. For Attorney General Cummings and other Administration Right-wingers the Jackson appointment was a notable victory. Mr. Cummings has never seen eye to eye with his able young subordinate on the subject of trust busting. Indeed, Bob Jackson once threatened to resign but the Attorney General told...
...textbook publishers is not greedy politicians or cutthroat competition, but censorship. Religious, racial, political, economic groups keep an eagle eye on schoolbooks, are quick to howl at what they consider irregularities. After Gary's School Superintendent William Wirt in 1934 charged that New Deal Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell was a revolutionary plotter, Oak Park, Ill. and Kansas City dropped like a hot potato a book of which Professor Tugwell was coauthor, Our Economic Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers. There are fighting words, especially...