Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...existed, especially in the air branch, that the Navy meant what it said. The Navy's roster listed many a naval air reservist of captain's rank. Two former aviation reservists who stayed in after the last war were al ready respected flag officers: Rear Admiral George Henderson, Rear Admiral Alfred M. Pride...
Among politicians the choice was popular; the top radio trade journals (Broadcasting, Radio Daily) praised the appointment. Kentuckian Porter, a tall (6 ft. 4 In.), convivial ex-newsman (Lexington Herald) is an able lawyer and a seasoned bureaucrat (AAA, OPA, WFA, OES). Friend of Henry Wallace, Leon Henderson and General "Ike" Eisenhower, he has been an ardent New Dealer since 1933. Having learned the ins & outs of radio during five years (1937-42) as Washington lawyer-lobbyist for CBS, he could probably earn far more outside of Government than the FCChairman's $10,000 salary...
...Liberal Party splinter, controlled by Labor Leader David Dubinsky, and attracting such independent Republicans as Russell Davenport, such New Dealers as Leon Henderson, polled 319,085 votes (nearly all in New York City) for Roosevelt. Hillman's A.L.P. polled 483,371. These two totals, added to the Democrats' 2,461,771, were enough to beat Tom Dewey's 2,952,867 straight G.O.P. vote in crucial New York State...
...Negroes attended a big political rally at which the VP had been advertised as the main speaker, only to find that his speech was to be played off a record. At a rally in Wall Street a lunch-hour crowd ignored the New Deal speakers (ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson, ex-Ambassador to Norway Mrs. J. Borden Harriman) to gape at a 1944 campaign hat designed by Sally Victor, the topical milliner. The hat, "The Commander in Chief," is a light blue beret with a red-white-&-blue cockade and ribbon, to sell for "about...
...Fellowship winners in addition to Miss Henderson are: Gilbert R. Barnhart, Washington, D.C. H. Howard Goldin '36, Washington, D.C., Associate Economist, Federal Communications Commission; Cyril McC. Henderson, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Harold L. Seligman, Washington, D.C., Junior Economist, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; William J. Smith, Durham, North Carolina, and Paul N. Yivisaker, Mankato, Minnesota, staff member of the Council of Intergovernmental Relations...