Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, said OPA, only about 15,000 will be price cops, the rest clerks. This will set only one price cop to watch every 1,500 stores. Last week it seemed that Congress might whittle the force some more. Congressmen were angry and disappointed because Leon Henderson had failed to "consult" them on appointments. Regional and State administrators turned out to be strangely nonpolitical, in many cases not even good New Deal Democrats. There was one notable exception: in Kentucky, after a stubborn fight with non-politics-minded OPA, the job went to WPAdministrator George H. Goodman, whose WPA campaigned...
Congress, still trying to blame Leon Henderson for the X-card fiasco, got set to punish him for all the sour mail citizens have sent to Congress. Its method: cut his appropriation, possibly from $161 millions to $100 millions. Then Leon Henderson would have to ask for volunteer snoopers...
...present 55,000,000-acre legal minimum. Such a cut would require a Congressional O.K., something most Washington dopesters class with a trip to the moon. In 1943, therefore, the U.S. Government is likely to pay for another bumper wheat crop it does not need and cannot store. Meanwhile, Leon Henderson's assurance that wheat rationing is not immediately likely remains the year's greatest understatement...
...hand of Leon Henderson came a rhymed beef about Government girls' inability to find busses to take them to work, even at 6 a.m. From Leon Henderson the young lady received a sheet of red note paper, dated "6 a.m. at the office," containing a holographic reply...
This was no buying spree. What, then, was all this talk that something had to be done to close an inflationary gap which Leon Henderson estimated at $17,000,000,000? Why must they save twice as much, be taxed twice as much to keep from blowing the price ceiling to smithereens...