Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sidney Hillman was still ill. Fulltime U. S. officials who are to share his job (mobilizing trained man power where it is needed) buzzed ahead without him on plans to train 1,000.000 civilians, find immediately needed craftsmen, school 45,000 civilian pilots for a year (through CAA). Hulking Leon Henderson kept his SEC office; he can watch price trends as well from one place as another...
...pretty certain that there will be some action," said Leon Henderson, after the board conferred last week with Franklin Roosevelt. Preliminary action there was, and of a kind to please U. S. businessmen. From Mr. Stettinius, the President ordered a thorough overhaul of the complex, tape-bound Federal procurement setup. Franklin ("I'm the boss") Roosevelt eased Secretary of the Treasury Morgen: thau out of Mr. Knudsen's way, giving him a free hand to tackle his enormous task of upping aircraft and aircraft-engine production to the still astronomical figure of 50,000 a year. Also promised...
...from Mexican Stalinists, who, according to ex-Communist Rivera, would like nothing more than to put him out of the way. With the cooperation of Mexican police, they actually did land him in heavy trouble last month, by blaming him for someone else's attempt to murder exiled Leon Trotsky (TIME, June...
...align agricultural policy with the defense program: Chester Davis, 52, grey, astute member of the Federal Reserve Board. To direct price stabilization in raw materials: terrible-tempered, fat, prophetic Leon Henderson, 45, member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. To advise on consumer protection: short, dynamic Harriet Elliott, 56, dean of women, University of North Carolina's Woman's College...
...Paris, Commander of the First French Army in Flanders; in an auto accident while commanding his troops. Hugo Hesketh Hughes, 38, 2nd lieutenant in the Welsh Guards, seven-goal British polo star; in action in Flanders. Jacques and Jean Denain, aviator sons of former Air Minister French General Victor Leon Ernest Denain; shot down returning from air raids over Germany. Sir Henry George Alan Percy, 27, Ninth Duke of Northumberland, England's largest coal owner (1939 income: $345,000); in France...