Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Right-Hand Men. With Harry Truman in the White House, there would be no room for Franklin Roosevelt's "anonymous" assistants, nor for the advice and influence of Harry Hopkins, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, ex-OPAdministrator Leon Henderson, Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, Judge Sam Rosenman, and others of the inner New Deal circle...
...Died. Leon Fraser, 55, world financial expert who began a varied career as a poor, adopted farm boy at North Granville, N.Y., ended up as president of the billion-dollar First National Bank of New York, after being a reporter, teacher, soldier, bureaucrat, lawyer, diplomat; by his own hand (gunshot); on the lawn of the farm-summer estate where he grew up. He left notes blaming his melancholia: "Except for this mental depression, I have everything to live for. . . . Sorry to be a nuisance this...
Toward Stability. Last week, too, a new attack opened on China's desperate economic front. One evening a silvery Douglas transport came down at a Chungking airfield. Out stepped its chief passenger, the Generalissimo, and a bulky hitchhiker, onetime OPA Boss Leon Henderson. The American, en route from Europe, had met the Generalissimo by chance in Kunming. But he was no chance visitor. The Generalissimo had asked him to study China's agonizing inflation...
...Next day Leon Henderson plunged into the job. At a twelve-hour-a-day pace he conferred with Chinese experts, with American production men. Long into the night he pored over price and commodity charts. What he read was staggering...
...Leon Henderson probably would recommend more U.S. aid (civilian supplies. gold bullion) to bolster China's economy. Even if his counsel brought China scant immediate relief, it was another sign that hope had replaced despair...