Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bourbon, 1,800 Democrats uncomplainingly ate the 700-calorie "austerity dinner" (tomato soup, baked chicken, potatoes, salad and one oatmeal cookie) for which they had paid $400 apiece. They whistled, whooped and slapped backs. Soprano Grace Moore rose with a flash of jewels, and sang a hillbilly song. Leon Henderson gave her a cigar...
...tougher the pressure gets, the better Chester Bowles seems to like it. A once-thwarted public servant and social thinker who has just come into his own, he loves his job. Where onetime Price Boss Leon Henderson let the heat frazzle his temper, where onetime Price Boss Prentiss Brown simply got out as fast as he could, Chester Bowles plows ahead with unconcealed pleasure, his big jaw jutting forward like the prow of one of the boats he used to sail in races to Bermuda...
Senator Maloney soon had the answer. He had Bowles made OPA chief for Connecticut. Then, after Leon Henderson was forced out by irate Congressmen and Prentiss Brown failed to win friends with a policy of appeasement, Maloney told Assistant President Jimmy Byrnes that Bowles was the man to head OPA. ''What's wrong with him?" asked Byrnes. Replied Maloney: "Only two things. He was on the America First Committee and he's damn fool enough to want to come to Washington...
Bowles got the job. He made enemies, but not nearly so many as testy Leon Henderson. He lost friends, but not nearly so many as Prentiss Brown. One of his most persistent foes, Nebraska's Republican Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, with whom he has had some bitter public debates, once complimented him: "Big Boy, you're the best salesman...
...exploits of individual heroes. But he has included his estimates of the men who bossed the top Pacific commands: Nimitz, Spruance, Mitscher, Halsey. He has also included some of the best of the old Pacific war sagas. One of them: 18 Lightnings racing out from Guadalcanal's Henderson Field to bushwhack Admiral Yamamoto in the air over Jap-held Bougainville...