Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor board estimated last week that universal application of its cost-of-living escalator will cost somebody a little under $1,000,000,000 a year. Leon Henderson's price-control office had previously guessed $3,000,000,000. But the big question left open is how much further the board will go in raising the pay of workers who claim that their pay was "substandard" 18 months...
When McNutt sent a man to the West Coast to stop pirating of workers by stabilizing wages, he ran head on into two other war agencies. Wage Boss William H. Davis' man was there with a second plan. Price Boss Leon Henderson's man was there with a third plan. The conference fell, with a loud, painful thump, among the three Government stools...
Five Into One. Leon Henderson also foresaw the need and the inevitability. He had clashed with McNutt and Davis over wages, with Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard on farm prices. Economist Henderson well knew the unbalanced house-of-cards structure of the U.S. economy after two years of war strains and stresses. He had his own ideas on how to manage the economy. But he was willing to forget them, if somebody would lay down an over-all policy to which he could sensibly gear price control...
Letdown. In Des Moines, Iowa, an eight-year-old Superman fan, James Henderson, put on a Superman suit, jumped off the second-story landing and crashed. Said he, with a sprained ankle, "The darned thing wouldn't work...
Washington's present social lions are officers, Latin American diplomats, wartime bigwigs like Donald Nelson, Leon Henderson and Sumner Welles, who are showered with invitations but accept very few. Because busy men have to be caught on the run, socialites now hold late-afternoon cocktail parties and buffet suppers, where busy guests can pop in for a quick one, instead of formal parties. One of the most popular functions is an open-house buffet luncheon served every day by Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, widow of the late New York Congressman, in her mansion near the War and State Departments...