Word: leon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House was in an ugly mood. From the floor came the angry buzz of milling, wrangling men. Majority Leader John W. McCormack tried to line up votes he knew were not there. After four months, Leon Henderson's price-control bill was getting the works...
Even the compromised bill was too much for the House. Lined up against the committee's bill was a queer, potent alliance: the farm bloc, Republicans who still smarted under their defeats on LendLease and Neutrality Act revision, Congressmen who distrusted the New Deal, Congressmen who distrusted Leon Henderson, Congressmen who distrusted price control...
Then the rebellious House got to work on the milder committee bill, rewrote it almost completely. It kicked out provisions to give Leon Henderson licensing power over business and unrestricted right to buy and sell commodities-big-stick enforcement clauses. It created a fiveman board of review with veto power over Henderson's actions. The House insisted on keeping an inflationary three-point formula for farm prices, even added a parity scheme for fish. Finally passed by a 224-161 vote, the bill was now little more than a scrap of paper...
Said one Congressman early in the debate: "The committee labored for three months and brought forth a field mouse." What Now? To Leon Henderson and his Office of Price Administration, the final day of debate was a sad spectacle. Since last April, when OPA was set up, Henderson has had to rely on what he calls "jawbone control," and even Henderson's stout jaw eventually gets tired...
...Cadiz, Ky.; Max D. Gaebler, Watertown; James P. Johnson, Wichita, Kans.; LeMoine G. Lewis, Midlothian, Tex.; Eric N. Lindblade, Cambridge; Richard V. McCann, Dedham; William M. Nielsen, Haure, Mont.; John Pillsbury, Manchester, N.H.; Andrew G. Rosenberger, Cambridge; Thomas B. Smith, Bartlett, Ohio; Francis H. Wise, Falls City, Ore; and Leon E. Wright, Boston...