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...Statistics as the index month for prices of 28 basic commodities) prices have risen steadily. After 23 months of piecemeal price control, the Administration and the House Banking & Currency Committee hacked out a tentative control bill. Last August the committee began hearings. After two weeks of desultory wrangling, the committeemen adjourned. The price index then had risen...
Price Boss Leon Henderson told the committeemen: twelve of the 28 basic commodities were already subjected to price control. The price index of the controlled twelve had dropped 2.4 points; the uncontrolled had leaped from 154.9 points to 168. While the committee argued, basic foodstuffs had risen from 159.9 to 172.2. Said Henderson with ironic innocence, as if he were not spanking the committee...
...with any past quarrels with Leon. Editorialized the American Metal Markets: "For the edification of those Congressmen who are enjoying their verbal tilts with Leon Henderson, it might not be amiss to present a picture of the No. 1 defense industry-steel-suffering from lack of raw material because committeemen delay . .. price authority and suitable penalties. . . . It may be that Mr. Henderson is not temperamentally the best man . . . but his honesty, patriotism and ruggedness are beyond question. . . . Price chaos in many industries is at [Congress'] doorstep...
...Carolina's hot-tempered, 77-year-old Representative Robert Lee ("Muley") Doughton, Chairman of the Ways & Means Committee, of a kick in the pants. For three months he had sweated over the biggest tax bill of all time, conferring with Treasury officials, arguing behind locked doors with fainthearted committeemen. For a week he had fought hard to get the bill through the House intact. Now, on the eve of passage, came the President's letter...
...Ernie King when he graduated in 1901 (after a mid-school interlude of active duty during the Spanish-American War, on patrol off the Atlantic Coast). That temper subsequently hindered his Navy career, made enemies, often saddened friends who had the utmost faith in his capacities. Testifying before Congressional committeemen, he has been known to fly into ugly, inarticulate rage. Such incidents did him no good, either with Congress or with the Navy command...