Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clarification of conflicting jurisdiction is needed, but will not solve the puzzle without new legislation from Congress. The occasional "on-the-job" freezing of labor already attempted is purely "jawbone" regulation, much like Leon Henderson's requests for voluntary price control before Congress gave him legal powers. Outright conscription of labor and 'a 'teen-age draft are impossible under existing statutes. These measures, which the President said "may be necessary," will require renewed Congressional deliberation. Even with strong Presidential leadership, Congress dallied with price-control. Without such leadership, they may waste more precious weeks bandying charges of "dictatorship" during labor...
...longtime friend and follower of Wizard Bernie Baruch), but he is not supposed to be. He will leave administrative details to his new committee: the heads of all the wartime and peacetime agencies which now deal with the various aspects of inflation, including OPA's Leon Henderson, the War Labor Board's William H. Davis and Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. Byrnes's job is to listen to the arguments among his committee members (who have seldom seen eye to eye in the past), iron out conflicts, set policies, steer for a united front against inflation...
With the first chill winds of fall: > OPAdministrator Leon Henderson's statisticians pored over 43 years of Weather Bureau figures. They came up with an allegedly scientific map zoning 30 States according to climate for fuel-oil rationing...
...first time in its ten-year history, and officers' caps are stacked six deep in the checkroom. At the Stork Club a hip-provoking rumba band helps lure 40% more business than last year. Nightclub-pocked 52nd Street jumps and jives until 4 almost every morning; famed Leon & Eddie's packs them in with come-ons like pretty chorines to dance with tired businessmen. The Hotel Astor roof has capacity crowds nightly and bar business is 65% above last year. In Broadway's flashy, pink-satined Latin Quarter, soldiers and visiting firemen ogle a sexy two-hour...
...make such decisions are not in the new wartime civilian agencies: Donald Nelson's WPB, Leon Henderson's OPA, Paul McNutt's WMC, William Davis' WLB, the Henry Wallace-Milo Perkins BEW. For each of these men has a single segment of the problem to work on, each has shadowy authority stemming only from the President, and as often as not they are in conflict with one another...