Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jefferson Coolidge, Dime Savings Bank's Philip Adolphus Benson, Guaranty Trust Co.'s Robert L. Garner, Bowery Savings Bank's Earl Bryan Schwulst, Kuhn Loeb's Benjamin J. Buttenwieser. On Government's team, he picked such men as Jerome Frank, Leon Henderson, Ben Cohen, Lauchlin Currie, Emanuel Alexander Goldenweiser, Commerce's Richard V. Gilbert...
...index)? They rejected the "fetish" of a balanced budget, preferring a balanced economy instead. But when full employment is reached, and a choice between guns and butter must be made, the New Dealers would plump for guns-i.e., consumption taxes. By 10 p.m. they had talked Leon Henderson to sleep under a picture of Thomas Jefferson. Then came the fireworks...
...Leon Ormond, a teacher in the Arts High School of Newark, N. J., has two classes of children with I. Q.s of 80 or less. Their reading is poor, their spelling worse. But Teacher Ormond encouraged them to write verses. Last week he triumphantly reported that near-morons can write. To prove it he published uncorrected samples of their poetry in The Clearing House, an educational magazine. Sample...
...Died. Leon Forrest Douglass, 71, millionaire inventor and co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company; after a long illness; in San Francisco. Once said to have "done more to abolish peace and quiet than anyone else now living," Douglass gave Edison's phonograph a spring motor, brought its inventor his first cash reward. Once he had his daughter fight an octopus to publicize his underwater camera. Other Douglass inventions: a magnetic torpedo for World War I, the first pay telephone, a device for double reproduction of sound in radio...
...Washington, meanwhile, Administration economists got busy measuring the accumulation in inventories, the seriousness of price increases up & down the economy to date. If Defense Advisory Commissioner (in charge of prices) Leon Henderson sees any signs of overproduction trouble, he will doubtless make himself heard...