Word: hendersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husband is a salesman and depends upon our car to earn our daily bread, but if Mr. Henderson needs our tires (we bought two new ones in September) he certainly may have them. We can always find another way to make a living...
...Production Board. > Silver-haired, tall, tan and handsome Paul Varies McNutt, a joiner and doer who once looked like a merely ambitious politician, wound up last week as chief of all the nation's manpower in the new War Manpower Commission (see col. 2). > Brisk, terrible-tempered Leon Henderson, the Great Jawbone, who managed the nation's fight against inflation and its rationing schemes, bossed civilian supply. and became the biggest financial man in the U.S. as boss of OPA. > The team of thoughtful, gentle Vice President Henry Wallace and his alter ego, Businessman Milo Perkins...
Franklin Roosevelt took counsel with his economic-war aides in the White House last week: Vice President Henry Wallace, head of the Board of Economic Warfare; Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Leon Henderson; Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Eccles; Budget Director Harold D. Smith. They went in softly by a side door, came softly out the same way. From that session, the President went straight to a conference with his Combined Labor War Board. The significance was obvious. Labor has been a chief bar to an over-all anti-inflation program. Labor, for the first time since 1933, must...
...Freezing of all rents and retail prices (possibly including food prices) by Leon Henderson's OPA. Price ceilings will be set at a level of some date earlier in the year. Ceilings will take effect the day the President speaks, or soon after...
...Lyric Writer Bud Green had a new twist, but little else, in his On the Old Assembly Line, to Ray Henderson's music. End of the chorus...