Word: bowleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In a few earnest words, Bowles made his case:
No Profit Control. Chester Bowles asked that OPA be given power to control commercial rents, barber shop and beauty parlor prices. OPA, or some other federal agency, should also be given authority to curb the boom in real estate. He brushed aside the charge that OPA is trying to control...
Liberal Conservative. There was little doubt that OPA's life would be extended, and that the extension would be agreed to with none of the usual brawling. This turnabout is partly due to belated recognition by civilians of the fact that wartime price control is necessary. But it is...
A grandson of Samuel Bowles, famed independent editor of the Springfield Republican, Bowles came out of The Choate School and Yale with a liberal outlook that satisfies New Dealers and labor. His years as board chairman of Manhattan's plushy ad firm of Benton & Bowles Inc. make him equally...
Bowles turned his sailboat over to the Coast Guard, and moved his wife and three of his children from his Connecticut home to a modest, rented house in McLean, Va. and set to work.