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...from the Far East, U.S. farmers had the food situation well in their plow-calloused hands. They were doing better than the Washington food bureaucrats. A half-dozen Government agencies were dabbling in the food problem, with well-confused results. The Agriculture Department's sugar section and Leon Henderson's Office of Price Administration, among others, played with sugar rationing. Nearly everyone had a hand in the fats & oils market: Agriculture, OPA, State Department, Board of Economic Warfare, WPB's food section, Jesse Jones's Defense Supplies Corp., even the British Purchasing Commission...
...nerve of Leon Henderson to intimate he might confiscate tires from some of us and give them to others...
...here that anyone else who agrees with me will they please write their Congressman now, talk it over with others, etc., etc., and generally cause such a "stink"-yes, that's the word-that Mr. Henderson will realize he put his foot in it when he said what he did-and will be more careful in the future...
...commercial photographer at the Urea Casino in Rio de Janeiro saw a good shot, took it, then lost his plates to his boiling-mad subject. The shot: Leon Henderson dancing the samba with a showgirl...
...late, gets up around 7 a.m., breakfasts on a stool at the Broadmoor luncheonette, drives himself to work. In a day he sees from 20 to 30 callers, spends most of his time on the telephone. Once a week he lunches at the Raleigh Hotel with Leon Henderson and Milo Perkins, who runs the Economic Warfare Board. On those days, most of the power that drives the U.S. war effort is gathered at one table in the Raleigh's dining room. Other days, Don Nelson lunches at his desk...