Word: leone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tougher the pressure gets, the better Chester Bowles seems to like it. A once-thwarted public servant and social thinker who has just come into his own, he loves his job. Where onetime Price Boss Leon Henderson let the heat frazzle his temper, where onetime Price Boss Prentiss Brown simply got out as fast as he could, Chester Bowles plows ahead with unconcealed pleasure, his big jaw jutting forward like the prow of one of the boats he used to sail in races to Bermuda...
Senator Maloney soon had the answer. He had Bowles made OPA chief for Connecticut. Then, after Leon Henderson was forced out by irate Congressmen and Prentiss Brown failed to win friends with a policy of appeasement, Maloney told Assistant President Jimmy Byrnes that Bowles was the man to head OPA. ''What's wrong with him?" asked Byrnes. Replied Maloney: "Only two things. He was on the America First Committee and he's damn fool enough to want to come to Washington...
Bowles got the job. He made enemies, but not nearly so many as testy Leon Henderson. He lost friends, but not nearly so many as Prentiss Brown. One of his most persistent foes, Nebraska's Republican Senator Kenneth S. Wherry, with whom he has had some bitter public debates, once complimented him: "Big Boy, you're the best salesman...
...rumpus over the British credit made the State Department discourage other large-scale borrowers. Paris papers predicted that France's special "good will" emissary, Leon Blum, expected in the U.S. in mid-February, would ask for $2.5 billion. His pleas might fall on near-deaf ears, even if he should argue that only U.S. aid to France would check the westward tide of Communism. Other prospective borrowers were biding their time, waiting to see what Congress would do with the British loan...
...Leon's bright, sun-spattered zocalo (public square), the air was electric with resentment. Thirty thousand Mexicans stood silent and dry-eyed as pyjama-clad workmen bore past them the 27 flag-draped coffins. Behind the coffins trudged women, heads covered and bowed, some with armloads of white lilies, others with dark rebozos draped over nursing child and naked breast. At the cemetery an angry, white-faced priest shouted: "Long live Christian democracy...