braintruster

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Rex Tugwell, bright young braintruster, has been anxious to get a bill passed to censor the labeling and advertising of foods, drugs and cosmetics.

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For the handsomest braintruster, this display of Presidential favor came at a critical moment.

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James Paul Warburg, 52, politically volatile author-economist scion of the banking Warburg family, onetime New Deal braintruster; and Joan Melber, 24, his secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Bronxville, N.Y.

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Last week a mission headed by Engineer Lucas Lopes, who is President Juscelino Kubitschek's No. 1 economic-development braintruster, arrived in Washington from Rio to ask for massive loans from the U.S.

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Only then did the Senate win a promise that the promotion of the President's chief braintruster from a $7,500 to a $10,000-a-year job would be reported.

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