braintruster

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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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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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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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It is to Hopkins that Tom is assigned as unofficial braintruster, ghostwriter and aide.

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Last but far from least is liberal Washington Economist Robert R. Nathan, 59, a onetime Roosevelt braintruster.

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