Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Production Board. > Silver-haired, tall, tan and handsome Paul Varies McNutt, a joiner and doer who once looked like a merely ambitious politician, wound up last week as chief of all the nation's manpower in the new War Manpower Commission (see col. 2). > Brisk, terrible-tempered Leon Henderson, the Great Jawbone, who managed the nation's fight against inflation and its rationing schemes, bossed civilian supply. and became the biggest financial man in the U.S. as boss of OPA. > The team of thoughtful, gentle Vice President Henry Wallace and his alter ego, Businessman Milo Perkins...
Captain Charlie Thomas has been shifted from center to right field and Don Giles has broken into the starting nine at center. Leon Peao seems to have taken the first base assignment away from early-season started Madden. Either Howie Mitchell or Bob McKee will hurl for the Terriers...
Franklin Roosevelt took counsel with his economic-war aides in the White House last week: Vice President Henry Wallace, head of the Board of Economic Warfare; Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Leon Henderson; Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Eccles; Budget Director Harold D. Smith. They went in softly by a side door, came softly out the same way. From that session, the President went straight to a conference with his Combined Labor War Board. The significance was obvious. Labor has been a chief bar to an over-all anti-inflation program. Labor, for the first time since 1933, must...
...Freezing of all rents and retail prices (possibly including food prices) by Leon Henderson's OPA. Price ceilings will be set at a level of some date earlier in the year. Ceilings will take effect the day the President speaks, or soon after...
Other surrealists whose pictures attracted crowds were Chilean-born Matta Echaurren, a specialist in vaguely visceral abstractions, and Leon Kelly, a U.S.-born newcomer, who had been painting odd dreams in Paris and Philadelphia for years, but had waited a long time to show them in broad daylight. Drawn with the care of an Italian Renaissance master, Kelly's tenuous vistas had a quietly horrifying aspect...