Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This question, addressed to Price Boss Leon Henderson at a press conference last week, brought forth a belly laugh in the best-natured Henderson manner. (The Price Boss has a great talent for Falstaffian waggery: he looks good on a Victory bicycle, sounds wonderful on Information, Please.) It also brought a frank admission: ". . . my lack of politeness. They say you should never get so busy you can't be polite. But Shakespeare, I believe it was, divided people into four groups.* I belong to the group with a low boiling point.. . . I've had plenty of flame...
...Leon Henderson well knew that his streak of sheer cussedness, the broadest in all Washington, had got him into lots of trouble. His bullying and ragging had driven Congress into a rage, yet he still exploded at the sight of a Senator. His OPA had become a red flag to bureaucracy-haters, yet he goaded his critics with the warning of "more red tape" to come. When he took the price control job, he predicted that he would become the most unpopular man in the U.S.-and often it seemed that he had done his best to make his prediction...
...Cook Too Few. Despite the multifarious agencies fumbling with this crucial matter, one segment of the war administration was not involved in the North African plans-and should have been. That was Joe Weiner's Civilian Supply division in WPB (and the officials concerned with similar problems in Leon Henderson...
...case against the railroads is that their gross profits, before interest and rentals this year will be approximately $1.5 billion, their net profits a little over $900 million. This, in Leon Henderson's opinion, is rank profiteering at the Government's expense, since the Government is the railroads' biggest customer. Furthermore Henderson has always claimed that high railroad rates are inflationary. The railroads' case against Henderson's reasoning is: railroad profits this year will still be approximately 5% less than the 5¼% return on invested capital allowed them by Congress. These profits are being...
Mathematics: Matthew P. Geffney, Jr. '43, Leon E. Kruger '43, Joseph A. Zilber...