Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bulky OPAdministrator Leon Henderson dislikes patronage. Balky Congress dislikes Henderson and loves patronage. Around that low-pressure area last week still blew the tempest over price control...
...Leon Henderson had asked the purse-proud Budget Bureau for $210 million to up his staff of 7,300 to 90,000 price cops and helpers. This was whacked down to $161 million, enough for 66,000 legmen...
...rough & tumble hearings, Henderson said he had to have the cash for 1943, that he intended to get it, and wanted 2,736 plain & fancy lawyers, 1,800 specialists, 600 economists. He would have no truck with voluntary price-watchers...
...York took up his snickersnee, whacked $130 millions off with one slash. But the auction settled down at $95 million; then the full committee sliced it to $75,000,000 before the bill went to the House floor. Fighters Taber and Oklahoma's Jed Johnson, veteran Henderson-haters, vowed to carry on, fight right to the House floor. Their goal: to see to it that Henderson got by on what was finally approved, to make him use volunteer price watchers...
Basis for this cheer was Leon Henderson's report that, from May 15 to June 2, living costs in 21 sample cities had actually declined one-tenth of 1%. It was the first time since November 1940 that the rise had been checked even momentarily. How long the ceiling can hold, with purchasing power soaring, with labor and farm prices uncontrolled, is another question...