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Price Boss Leon Henderson made a concession to politicos who are worried about what lack of gasoline might do to their old-fashioned town-to-town stumping. OPA announced that bona fide candidates will get enough gas to do their electioneering, that local political machines can count on enough to haul voters to the polls on election days. Question in both instances: How much is enough...
...treasury tax bill reduced by almost two billions, the $25,000 limit on personal income discarded, and effective price ceiling hamstrung by a fifty per cent cut in OPA funds, the administration anti-inflation program forms a striking case in point. The continued refusal of Congress to grant Leon Henderson necessary powers and appropriations in the struggle against inflation, and its insistence on farm price parity still threatens the price structure of the nation...
...last week, with one eye on Lewis and the other eye shut, Phil Murray lashed out against the "crazy quilt of OPA," denounced Leon Henderson's 5% raise weasel and the whole attempt to keep wages in hand as "unfair . . . intolerant ... a victory for Hitler." Thus he gave the nation the spectacle of its No. 1 labor leader taking pot shots at a Government program primarily designed to protect labor's own standard of living...
...Davis, Henderson and Murray were all sensible practical men. But politics has a way of making practical men do foolish things...
Farm prices have stolen a backward march on Leon Henderson, have declined without waiting for a ceiling to be clamped on them. Wheat last week was down 15? a bushel from the 1942 high; corn, 5?; rye, 28/5 soybeans, 27?; cotton, 2?: a pound; eggs, 4? a dozen...