Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sacrificed Price Boss Leon Henderson to Congressional critics, decided to appoint Michigan's Senator Prentiss M. Brown in his place (see below...
...Baltimore's Pennsylvania Station one evening last week, Price Boss Leon Henderson stepped into the arms of a welcoming committee from Local Ration Board 234.3, all set to rib him, themselves and their mutual works at a "Smileage Rationing" party...
First stop was Radio Station WCAO, for a broadcast with his hosts. A woman member asked point-blank about rumors that he was going to resign. Leon Henderson grinned. "Well, that's the way things go," he said. In walked a newsman, with word that the resignation had just been announced in Washington. "There you have it," said Henderson, grinning again...
Rumors flew thick & fast in Washington last week that Leon Henderson was through as Price Boss. The rumors began when he resigned as Director of Civilian Supply and turned the job over to his deputy, Lawyer Joseph L. Weiner. They multiplied when the Truman Committee blasted his administration of fuel-oil rationing. Henderson's press conference was designed to defend his record and spike the rumors-but it did not quite succeed...
With its chief Leon Henderson slogging through the worst political mess he has yet encountered (see p. 20), the rest of OPA was also out looking for trouble last week. OPA lawyers were engaged in their first big wave of enforcement actions. The day had come for OPA to put up or shut up on price control and rationing. OPA was putting...