Word: leon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Price Administrator Leon Henderson last week took note of this inflationary threat. Price rises, he warned retailers, "should in no case reflect more than the actual dollar amount of the . . . excise tax." But retail merchants paid him little mind. Most of them went merrily on their way, marking...
...member of the House Banking & Currency Committee, Mr. Ford had sat patiently through most of the hearings on the hashed, compromised, junk-assembled Price Control Bill. He had listened while the committee got a triple-plated Ph.D. course in high & low economics from Price Boss Leon Henderson, in a steady examination that gave "The Great Jawbone" the probable all-time record for lengthy appearances before Congressional committees...
...isolated price rises start the upward trend," he stated. "If a free market is to be legally regulated, it must be completely regulated, not merely in certain places as Leon Henderson is doing. Sacrifices must be made either in income or in paying higher prices," he added...
...while farm products, which include the U.S.'s most troublesome surpluses, have increased 45.3%. Among manufactured goods, two that are processed from farm products-food and clothing-are also among the worst offenders, while many steel products have not gone up at all. Obvious reason: Government policy. While Leon Henderson has sat on many an industrial price, farm prices have been boosted by all kinds of Government...
Arriving in Princeton, N.J. one night last week, Leon Henderson's heart was warm with pride and sentiment. Thinking of the nice things old Barney Baruch had said about him that day, he joined his dinner hosts in a glowing mood. Before the evening was over, Leon's cup of sentiment was overflowing. For the dinner celebrated the 100th anniver sary of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. of Trenton. And Leon (born in Millville) is a Jersey...