Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administered the final, official rebuke to opponents of nationwide gasoline rationing by ordering Rubber Czar William Jeffers and OPAdministrator Leon Henderson to start rationing this week as planned...
Only 600,000 Pairs. In putting ceilings (69? to $1.65) on women's silk hose last week, OPA Chief Leon Henderson gave away a secret, started another hoarding rush. On manufacturers' and merchants' shelves only some 600,000 pairs of silk hose are left. Women had thought there were many more...
...bloc of 75 Western Congressmen demanded a 90-day deferment of nationwide rationing, to them a wholly unnecessary act. Michigan's Representative Frank Hook got cheers for suggesting a clipping of Leon Henderson's authority, but the hefty OPA head stood his ground. Oil had to be sent to North Africa, said he, even if it meant epidemic pneumonia in the East. (North Atlantic ports are 1,400-odd miles nearer Casablanca than the oil ports of the Gulf of Mexico...
...decline of Henry Morgenthau typified one aspect of the New Deal dilemma: it lacked the vitality of leadership needed to throw off its ills. To practical politicians in the Democratic Party, most New Deal bigwigs had become anathema. Such good New Dealers as Henry Morgenthau, Price Boss Leon Henderson and Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, who were in the bitter struggles of organizing the nation for war, had left much of their popularity and most of their political blood on the battlefield-and had won no administrative medals...
...remain) turned out good reporters by the score. Until they left for big-city jobs, Joe figured that each was his responsibility. Few of them had had a chance to return the favor until last week. But Denver's current crop of reporters have. Joe's son, Leon, is the left-end hero of the University of Denver's football team. Inasmuch as every newspaperman in town figures he has a half interest in Leon's upbringing, the coverage he gets is just short of scandalous...