Brain Trust

The term Brain Trust, (German: Brain - Trust), referred to a panel of experts in scientific or political key positions who contribute their knowledge in common for example, a government consulting.

In the United States the term was especially during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt announced his " Brains Trust " was a group of consultants within his administration who prepared the New Deal and originally from a group of law and economics professors from Columbia University was, Adolf Berle, Rexford Tugwell, the 1968 book, The Brains Trust wrote about it, and Raymond Moley, the banker James Warburg and others. As one of the first of the journalist James Kiernan of the New York Times in 1932 used this term ( Brains Trust, later shortened to Brain Trust) for the group.

The term appeared in 1899 for the first time in the Marion Daily Star; it said: Since everything else is tending to trusts, why not a brain trust? The meaning points to the time when the trust- busting, a popular political slogan, contributed to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and later was significant for the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. The concept was then used again in 1928 in Time magazine.