Word: wirts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken: The talk about the "brain trust" is all blather. It always was. People have always wanted brains in their rulers, when they could find them. It is not the brain trust that was the bugaboo. It is youth. What frightened Dr. Wirt was the discovery that he was 60 years old, and that his young secretary had more to do with government than he had. . . . He was not going to let on how old he was, so he raised the hue and cry over brains, and it was a false scent, as the folks...
...elected to Congress on an anti-corporation farming platform, is today one of the noisiest Republican hecklers in the House. He shouted loudly over the tax bill and tried to block it by getting a sales tax included. He shouted loudly over Dr. Wirt and the iniquities of the Brain Trust. Last week he got into an argument with Speaker Rainey over a question of procedure and tied up business in the House for an hour and a quarter until he was finally and decisively voted down. Several Democrats saluted him with Indian war-whoops, as a subtle reminder that...
...prolabor but not a radical), who also sits on the National Labor Board and heads the Automobile Labor Board. And finally there is Rose Schneiderman (Labor Advisory Board) who last January went to Puerto Rico to iron out its labor difficulties and, more recently, has threatened to sue Dr. Wirt for calling her "Red Rose of Anarchy...
...popped in at a newsreel theatre a few days ago. Heard the entire Roosevelt speech (some of which you misquoted) and distinctly heard loud, lusty, prolonged laughter, when Roosevelt said, "from Wirt to work...
...Crusaders for Economic Liberty- whose shirts are white. (Estimated membership: 40,000; claimed: 200,000.) Their patriotic-economic program is to destroy the gold standard, repudiate the public debt, fight inflation. George W. Christians, commander-in-chief of the Crusaders, was very indignant six weeks ago when Dr. Wirt said that the Brain Trust regarded President Roosevelt as the Kerensky of the U. S. revolution. Christians loudly claimed credit for having told Mr. Roosevelt that very thing at Warm Springs three months before his inaugural...