Brain trust
Brain Trust refers to a body of experts in key scientific or political positions who jointly contribute their knowledge to advise a government, for example. The English name is composed of "brain" (= brain, understanding) and "trust" (= trust, trust, cartel).
In the United States , the term was best known during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt , his "Brains Trust" was a group of advisors within his administration who prepared the New Deal and originally a group of law and economics professors from Columbia University , Adolf Berle , Rexford Tugwell , who wrote a book about it in 1968, The Brains Trust , and Raymond Moley , the banker James Warburg, and others. The New York Times journalist James Kiernan was one of the first to use this term (Brains Trust, later shortened to Brain Trust) for the group.
The term first appeared in the Marion Daily Star in 1899 ; It said: Since everything else is tending to trusts, why not a brain trust? The meaning points to the time when trust-busting , a popular political slogan, contributed to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and was later significant to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt . The term was then used again in Time Magazine in 1928 .
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literature
- John J. Patrick, Richard M. Pious, Donald A. Ritchie: The Oxford Guide to the United States Government. Oxford University Press, New York 2001, ISBN 978-0-19-514273-0 , p. 56 (= Brains Trust ).