Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Made two appointments which were almost unanimously praised: ex-Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan, to succeed Leon Henderson as director of the Office of Price Administration, and Federal Judge Wiley B. Rutledge Jr., to succeed Economic Czar James F. Byrnes as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court...
...parting shot as U.S. Price Czar, Leon Henderson last week tossed up a smart-sounding plan to siphon loose cash from U.S. citizens, thus help control inflation. The scheme: a buy-in-advance arrangement to sell purchase certificates now on consumer goods to be delivered after...
...Economic Stabilizer James Byrnes conferred with Harold Ickes, Leon Henderson, Transportation Director Eastman. Immediate result: none. His warning: "No hope for any lessening of the restrictions upon the use of fuel...
Explained Leon Henderson, with the enthusiasm of a man on the trail of a big idea: "The new program is designed to give the consumer effective protection from rising living costs and at the same time vastly simplify the regulations to which the food retailer is now subject." Echoed U.S. housewives and grocers: praise...
...short time able, yet defeated, Senator Prentiss M. Brown will reluctantly move into Leon Henderson's hot spot as head of OPA (see p. 13). Massachusetts' able Thomas H. Eliot will head the British Division in the London Bureau of OWL But the list of defeated, deserving Democrats is much longer than three; and the ambitions of some of the candidates are not as restrained as Senator Brown's. California's bumbling Governor Culbert Levy Olson blithely told friends in Washington last week his eyes were lifted toward the Supreme Court vacancy...