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While he held the post of Assistant Secretary of State, Raymond Moley appeared to be Franklin Roosevelt's most affectionate Brain Truster. Relegated to unofficial advising in the columns of Vincent Astor's Today, Editor Moley has lately evidenced a decided mind of his own. To the tasty editorial sauce he pours on New Deal objectives, he has begun to add strong dashes of vinegar for New Deal performance...
...once a group of Congressmen found themselves in agreement with a Brain Truster. President Roosevelt and Treasury experts had argued that to adjust the proposed tax so that corporations might put by some of their profits as a cushion against hard times would decrease its yield below the required $620,000,000. Last week the House Ways & Means subcommittee, assigned to write the bill, whipped out a graduated schedule of rates which it claimed would permit corporate cushions and still bring in all the money the President and Treasury wanted. Its scale: a 15% tax on the first...
Speaking for Standard's management, John Foster Dulles, famed international lawyer, suavely acknowledged Truster Groves's "remarkable achievement" but doubted whether he or anyone else was "smart enough to make $2,000,000 into $9,000,000 as a regular proposition." Said Lawyer Dulles: "It can't be done without, in the first place, having a substantial amount of high speculation, coupled with a very considerable amount of luck. Anybody who thinks that that thing can be done, and done regularly, is a man, I say, who is playing for a fall." The stockholders apparently agreed, giving...
...Economics who will preside at the meeting which will be held in New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock tonight under the suspices of the Liberal Club. Professor McLaughlin will probably be on the list of speakers with Professor Mather, and Max Lerner, instructor in Government, and former brain truster has also signified his willingness to be on the program...
...sooner had Representative O'Connor got well started toward headlines, investigating the mutual accusations of Representative Brewster and Brain Truster Tom Corcoran, than Senator Black stole the front page from him by a more spectacular investigation of fake telegrams from Pennsylvania (TIME, July...