Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fate of five other U.S. correspondents is not yet known. They are A.P.'s Robert St. John, U.P.'s Leon Kay, the New York Herald Tribune's Russell Hill, the New York Times's Ray Brock, and Leigh White of CBS and Overseas News Agency. When last heard of (at Cattaro, April 16), they were heading into the Adriatic in a rowboat, presumably bound for Greece...
Five days after Leon Henderson took office as price tsar, the only price action he had taken was to crack down dramatically on steel with an order freezing all the industry's prices, at least temporarily...
...head of it he placed burly Leon Henderson, most dynamic and executive of the New Deal coterie. Into Henderson's hands he placed powers which include authority to fix priorities on all civilian supplies, to withhold supplies from offending industries, to use priorities on transportation, to fix and publish maximum price schedules-and to advise the President to commandeer plants which fail to cooperate...
First major product whose price was dumped in Leon Henderson's lap was steel industry's biggest raw material and key to the whole U.S. price structure (see above). Last week C.I.O. and C.I.O 's archenemy, Ernest Tener Weir, combined to make many a steel producer talk about upping his price tags...
...sent to Congress three years ago asking that the committee be set up. Both friends & foes joined in criticism. Editorialized the conservative New York Times: "TNEC . . . proposes to stimulate private enterprise by adopting . . . more . . . Federal controls that have already done so much to burden . . . new enterprise." Said New Dealers Leon Henderson and Isador Lubin, who served on the committee but were too busy with defense work to bother with the final recommendations: "Surely it should be possible, with all this great wealth of evidence ... to offer a concrete program geared to the needs of our time...