Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Price Boss Leon Henderson said he had announced the rationing in advance to forestall "more confusion and hysteria than even now exists on the subject of coffee." Coffee sales will be completely halted for a week before rationing begins. Then sugar ration stamp No. 28 will become coffee ration stamp...
...first and longest-standing boss was fiery, bombastic Smedley D. Butler, famed soldier-orator of the last generation (TIME, June 20, 1927). Vandegrift served with Old Gimlet Eye at Leon and Coyotepe Hill in Nicaragua; landed with him at Veracruz; fought with him in Haiti; helped pacify the Chinese Nationalists in Shanghai and Tientsin, in the late '20s. Through these years he was the apple of Old Gimlet Eye's eye, and earned himself the nickname of Sunny...
Good news for the 17,000,000 U.S. bowlers: starting Nov. 1, bowling rates will be under the thumb of Price Boss Leon Henderson. Ceiling: March (1942) prices...
...money in the citizen's pocket, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., having recently defeated a sales tax, is still playing with cheap-money methods of financing the war which have a direct inflationary effect. As to cheap prices, Price Boss Leon Henderson has been doing a sterling job of creating retail bargains...
...Oklahoma, independent, redhaired, 300-lb. Democratic Governor Leon Chase Phillips, whose term expires at year's end, asked Oklahomans to vote for Republican Senatorial Candidate E. H. Moore instead of 100% New Dealing Senator Josh Lee. In Montana, political advertisements for Democratic Senator James E. Murray listed his record on foreign policy, contrasting it with the pacifist record of Republican Candidate Rankin. The ads did not show that the record was compiled by Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin (who is not running for re-election), while Murray's opponent is her brother, Wellington D. Rankin...