Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours to 44 at the same pay. ∙∙ Vice President Henry A. Wallace stepped to bat in a charity softball game, nearly swung himself off his feet at a ball three feet wide of the plate, then made a comeback with two hits. ∙∙ Melon-waisted Leon Hender son, who had long hung his thumbs on a low-slung belt, changed to white suspenders, hung his thumbs up three inches higher, pronounced the new arrangement good...
...Fairless, Eugene Grace, Leon Henderson, Jesse Jones, John Biggers and Samuel Fuller of 0PM, and James Forrestal of the Navy, agreed to the expansion in two "secret" meetings, from which the news leaked out as quickly as if they had met on the Capitol steps. The money ($800,000,000 to $1,000,000,000) will come mostly from Jesse Jones's newly swollen coffers. Anti-expansionists described the increase as "precautionary." But if Messrs. Grace and Fairless, lately of the "we have plenty" school, had agreed to 10,000,000 tons, they might later agree to more...
Strangely enough, the drive behind the 10,000,000-ton expansion was not primarily the need of plate. It came chiefly from Leon Henderson, whose job is to govern civilian supplies, and who knows that many "civilian" needs are really auxiliary defense needs. He estimated that defense demands on present steel output would leave only 36,000,000 tons for 1942 civilian needs, "and," said he, "you can't even run a depression on that." (Gano Dunn, whose report did not make a deep impression in Washington, figured 67,000,000 tons would be left for civilians, if there...
Last week's report made such bad reading that even habitually sanguine Franklin Roosevelt could think of no comment beyond predicting general priorities on steel. Next day priorities came. OPM's Stettinius announced that he and OPACS's Leon Henderson would allocate 75% of steel production (the share not now going to defense and Britain) among competing civilian needs. Graceful living was clearly due for another shock...
Price Administrator Leon Henderson pushed his tubbiness into a Senate committee room last week to dry some of Dixie's outraged tears, caused by his holding down the price of cotton yarns. There he ran into snorting, shouting, howling Senator Cotton Ed Smith, chairman of the Agriculture Committee...