Word: trusters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats, apparently riding the crest of the wave, headed for blind disaster on some still-distant shore? One Democrat who thinks so is Harvard Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., brain-truster and speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson through two campaigns. Modern Democratic bosses are deliberately ignoring a treasure of intellectual-liberal candidates in favor of "mediocre party hacks," Schlesinger writes in the New Republic. Case in point: Tammany's passing over of onetime Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter in New York to hand the U.S. Senate nomination to District Attorney Frank Hogan, who "has hardly voiced...
TIDES OF CRISIS, by Adolf A. Berle Jr. (328 pp.; Reynal; $4), finds the mellowing (62) ex-brain truster of F.D.R. days conducting a mildly condescending seminar on the key events of the last quarter-century for the benefit of that global slowpoke, the U.S. public. Author Berle is most provocative when he looks at the mid-century world as a stage and finds it peopled with ghosts...
...Died. Jerome New Frank, 67, agile-minded onetime New Deal brain-truster, general counsel to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration from 1933 to 1935, chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission from 1939 to 1941, and judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (New York, Connecticut and Vermont) since 1941; of a heart attack; in New Haven...
...ready to prove that the plan was unworkable. The university's ruling Hebdomadal Council met in deepest secrecy and significantly failed to endorse the new scheme. From his Christ Church study overlooking the meadow, the venerable Lord Cherwell, Sir Winston Churchill's top wartime brain-truster and now adviser for Britain's atomic-energy program, issued a statement solemnly urging that a Royal Commission be appointed to study the matter. After such a body had deliberated a few years, the menace of the Suez Canal crisis would undoubtedly have passed, and the 35 Christ Church...
...symbol of the '20s was the disgruntled intellectual who went to live in Europe, the present symbol-to the pessimists, at least-is the disgruntled intellectual who has stayed at home because he has no other place to go. The crusading muckraker, the flamboyant expatriate, the dedicated brain-truster-all these convenient tags are gone. While the European intellectual goes about his traditional business and enjoys traditional respect, the American sometimes feels that he is the forgotten man. He seems to have little to say, and even when he does, he is supposed to be so intimidated that...