Word: leone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shape of the order was nearly determined at week's end. The President planned to establish a new Economic Stabilization Board: Price Boss Leon Henderson, Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, War Labor Board Chairman William H. Davis, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Eccles, Budget Director Harold Smith and probably an outside chairman as yet unnamed. The board would administer price control, formulate wage policy, make tax recommendations...
...Navy men, OPA's Leon Henderson, WPB's William Batt, OCD's James Landis and many another took their turns, the schools' job grew. From young (37) Brigadier General Lawrence S. Kuter they learned that the Army Air Forces relied on them to help train 2,000,000 flyers and ground men. They were exhorted to train 5,000,000 more industrial workers, to teach the U.S. people how to stop inflation, sell war bonds, enlist the nation's 30,000,000 school kids to collect scrap. They were even asked by WPB to contribute...
...grasping Congressional farm bloc. Results: 1) The price control bill assured farmers a hefty chunk of money by prohibiting ceiling prices on farm products until the market price reached 110% of the 1909-14 purchasing power; 2) the bill gave Farmer Wickard veto power over any food price OPAdministrator Leon Henderson might...
Thus Administrator Wickard, much in the same tone as Leon Henderson (see col 3.), said in effect that meat prices must drop considerably below this week's level. This was a further clue that the Administration is leading up to a new anti-inflation program that will provide subsidies, lower farm price ceilings and some kind of wage adjustment. On one front peace had been made, but Wickard threw down the gauntlet for another feud with the farm bloc...
...money-making war workers themselves last week bulky Leon Henderson carried the hellfire preachments that he has bellowed over Washington conference tables the past six months...