Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good Works & Bad. Thus Leon Henderson, watchdog of the nation's prices, big bad wolf to Congress and bull in a china shop to all & sundry, dropped out of one of the biggest of all wartime offices. For all his polite interchange of letters with his President, Henderson did not fall. He was pushed: by the farm bloc, by Midwestern Congressmen who loathe gasoline rationing, by Democrats who thought that his restrictions had been the biggest factor in November's election returns. And perhaps the Administration felt it was time to sacrifice him when a new blunder over...
...press conference last fortnight Henderson once again cited the figures he takes such pride in: they showed that the basic price level has risen only two points since he got his price-control act last January. Said Leon Henderson: "I'd rather be remembered for that than for the people who love...
...succeed volcanic Leon Henderson as Price Boss (see above), Franklin Roosevelt last week chose a man who seldom erupts: able, steady, slow-burning Senator Prentiss Marsh Brown of Michigan, 53, a Democrat and-through no fault of his own-a lame duck. Senator Brown did not want the job: after his defeat by Michigan's popular Judge Homer Ferguson last month (TIME, Nov. 16), he was ready to go back home to resume his law practice. But when the White House put the job up to him as a patriotic duty, conscientious Prentiss Brown had no choice...
...speech-one of the greatest of the 77th Congress-he shattered farm-bloc opposition, saved the day for the Administration, earned Franklin Roosevelt's gratitude. Like many a good man before him, he now takes his reward in a harder, meaner assignment: a job that nobody but a Leon Henderson would want and that few men would accept...
Though he is no friend of the farm bloc, Prentiss Brown will get along with Congress far better than Leon Henderson. He is quiet, unobtrusive, unspectacular. He has a politico's respect for sore toes. And on Capitol Hill he is known warmly as an engaging, modest first-termer who arrived in Washington as a wearer of old-fashioned nightshirts, a man whose idea of a good time was to visit Washington's old cemeteries...