Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scant six weeks its pattern had been spread for the U.S. people to read in every page of the Congressional Record, in the angry, antibureaucracy bills that tumbled into full hoppers, in the killing off of Leon Henderson and Ed Flynn, in no less than 17 investigations of the Government, in the wrathful roar that followed directives, orders, Federal moves big & small...
...Indian Confederation), the new Who's Who gave eight times as many lines as he had last year (5 to 40). Other newcomers besides MacArthur: Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Harry Hopkins, Lend-Lease Coordinator W. Averell Harriman, Admiral Harold R. Stark. Donald Nelson was in, but not Leon Henderson; Edward R. Stettinius was in, but not Henry Kaiser. Still in: Adolf Hitler; still out: Premier Hideki Tojo...
...Governor Leon C. Phillips of dry Oklahoma finally entered a protest to General Marshall against the earmarking practice. He was not quite on solid ground. But General Marshall did decide that the open bar must go. By his order, he deprived prohibitionists of ammunition and still left unblighted the camaraderie of officers' clubs. All bar sales were halted, but the practice of earmarking was unaffected...
This week when Leon Henderson officially stepped down from head of the Office of Price Administration, U.S. business saw not just the departure of an able public servant but another blow at an economic philosophy which has already stubbed its toe on hard economic fact and hard, economic...
American film audiences should feel obliged to nominate Leon Gordon's resurrection of "White Cargo" in movie form as one of the year's foremost blunders. Although a well-handled advertising campaign may give this production large box office receipts, it can do little to repair the damage done to the acting prestige of Walter Pidgeon, Richard Carlson, and Hedy Lamarr. These three are the victims of a plot and setting as hackneyed as any the film industry has seen...