Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...older man was Bernard Mannes Baruch, 70. Beside Mr. Baruch's right ear, the good one, sat Leon Henderson, 45, earnest, gesticulating, mildly profane...
Henderson's Lesson. The first lesson of history is to read it. That Leon Henderson has done. Bernard Baruch is a man of peace, but of the 1918 U.S. economic effort, which Baruch managed, Field Marshal von Hindenburg wrote: "Her brilliant, if pitiless, war industry had entered the service of patriotism and had not failed it. ... They understood...
What happens to prices when the President's 2,000,000-ton shipping pool curtails coastwise and intercoastal shipping, adding costly rail rates to goods which now move cheaply by sea? This problem landed on the desk of OPACS Chief Leon Henderson (see p. 16) last week, and it looked as though busy Leon might have some answers ready...
...Boylston elocution contest, first prizes of $35 each went to Leon S. Lipson '41, of Newton, and to Phillip Thayer '41, of Worcester; and second prizes of $25 each went to Arsen E. Charles '42, of South Braintree, David D. Henry '41, of Wellesley Hills, and Robert B. Nichols '41, of Dorset...
...direct and immediate purpose of these levies is to take the heat off Leon Henderson in his job of preventing price inflation. If the boom were to remain unchecked, Henderson would be swamped by civilian demand competing for goods in a market restricted by defense priorities...