Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Price Boss Leon Henderson made a concession to politicos who are worried about what lack of gasoline might do to their old-fashioned town-to-town stumping. OPA announced that bona fide candidates will get enough gas to do their electioneering, that local political machines can count on enough to haul voters to the polls on election days. Question in both instances: How much is enough...
...treasury tax bill reduced by almost two billions, the $25,000 limit on personal income discarded, and effective price ceiling hamstrung by a fifty per cent cut in OPA funds, the administration anti-inflation program forms a striking case in point. The continued refusal of Congress to grant Leon Henderson necessary powers and appropriations in the struggle against inflation, and its insistence on farm price parity still threatens the price structure of the nation...
...last week, with one eye on Lewis and the other eye shut, Phil Murray lashed out against the "crazy quilt of OPA," denounced Leon Henderson's 5% raise weasel and the whole attempt to keep wages in hand as "unfair . . . intolerant ... a victory for Hitler." Thus he gave the nation the spectacle of its No. 1 labor leader taking pot shots at a Government program primarily designed to protect labor's own standard of living...
When old Noah Blanchard was president of Prudential Insurance Co. of America, he bought 508 shares. And when his son Leon died, his handwritten will forbade his heirs ever to sell the stock for less than...
...Before Leon set up his general price top two months ago, he had bellowed time & again that price control could not work unless farm prices were included too. But farm prices, after soaring 44% in the 13 months ending last January, have just wound up four straight months of fairly stable prices. They stopped going up-at least temporarily-three months before Leon temporarily halted the rise in living costs...