Word: leon
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Winners were Stanley O. Beran '41, Howard O. Blackwell '39, Edward G. Greenburg '41, Harry S. Harwood '59, Leon Lipson '41, Jonas M. Muller '40, James J. Pattee '41, Harvard Rivin '40, Robert H. Ryan '41, and John R. Whitteer...
That paradox began with NRA, which was almost a perfect expression of monopolistic economics. When it was abolished, the New Deal reversed its field, has since been on an anti-trust rampage. But a large group of New Dealers (such as Economist Leon Henderson) have continued to favor the NRA approach. With creation of the "business appeasement" policy, they have begun to emerge from the New Deal doghouse, to the alarm of more left-wing New Dealers (such as Lawyers Tommy Corcoran and Ben Cohen, Economist David Cushman Coyle). Last week's blast against steel was meant to chase...
...Leon Henderson, a former NRA official, made a hurt defense of it. SECommissioner Jerome Frank explored "the question whether competition does not also at times lead to great economic and social waste," then suggested: "that the category of those industries which today we call public utilities, the category of industries where monopoly may be more desirable than competition, is not necessarily a closed...
...Stalinism to introduce the methods of slander, kidnapping, murder, and frame-up trials. You all know of the Moscow confession trials. . . . Perhaps you know of the slander campaign against John Dewey and other liberal and radical figures for their participation on the Committee for the Rights of Asylum for Leon Trotsky. In Loyalist Spain where the G.P.U. was much more in evidence than Russian arms, the Trotskyites and the POUM were murdered and framed by the Stalinists on the charge of being "paid agents of Franco." Such men as Ignazio Silone, John Dos Passos, and James Farrell; to mention...
...Leon Henderson, Isador Lubin and Willard Thorp (TIME, Dec. 12). Shortly thereafter Thurman Arnold's Department of Justice trucked across the floor waggling a finger at patent monopoly in the glass container industries (TIME, Dec. 26). Last week it was the turn of SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. As everyone knows, Bill Douglas is a very agile fellow and when he revealed that his dancing partner would be the insurance business-far too dignified for Big Appling-everyone knew it would be fun watching...