Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--A second Japanese "feeler" attack has been repulsed by American forces on Guadalcanal and 12 more enemy planes have been shot down in renewed attacks on Henderson Field, the Navy announced today...
...critical moment of today we share with China. Should not Harvard, working in conditions of far greater safety, also do its part in keeping alive liberal education? Gregory Henderson '44 Maurice Friedman '43 Melvin Richter '43 Andrew E. Rice '43 J. C. Russell...
Clarification of conflicting jurisdiction is needed, but will not solve the puzzle without new legislation from Congress. The occasional "on-the-job" freezing of labor already attempted is purely "jawbone" regulation, much like Leon Henderson's requests for voluntary price control before Congress gave him legal powers. Outright conscription of labor and 'a 'teen-age draft are impossible under existing statutes. These measures, which the President said "may be necessary," will require renewed Congressional deliberation. Even with strong Presidential leadership, Congress dallied with price-control. Without such leadership, they may waste more precious weeks bandying charges of "dictatorship" during labor...
...longtime friend and follower of Wizard Bernie Baruch), but he is not supposed to be. He will leave administrative details to his new committee: the heads of all the wartime and peacetime agencies which now deal with the various aspects of inflation, including OPA's Leon Henderson, the War Labor Board's William H. Davis and Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. Byrnes's job is to listen to the arguments among his committee members (who have seldom seen eye to eye in the past), iron out conflicts, set policies, steer for a united front against inflation...
...enemy made three coordinated night attacks against three separate sectors of the Marines' perimeter defenses of Henderson Field. One attack came from the south, another from the west, another from the east. The flank attacks were beaten back-one of them with relative ease, probably because about half of a thousand Japanese troops d >stined for it had been slaughtered by 01 planes while the enemy was attempting to land...