Word: leone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a career of rioting and street fighting that culminated in the shooting up of a Mexico City police station, Siqueiros had landed in jail, charged with complicity in an attempted assassination of Leon Trotsky. Mexican artists and leftists, led by potent little Vicente Lombardo...
...back pay and an additional $21,000,000 a year in future wages. The Wall Street Journal estimated that WLB's formula, if applied to all industry, would raise the purchasing power of U.S. workmen by $3,500,000,000 a year-enough to blow Price Boss Leon Henderson's ceilings to smithereens...
Price Boss Leon Henderson, trying hard to keep his ceilings in repair, had a week of ups & downs. The War Labor Board, in the Little Steel case, created a new burst of purchasing power for him to worry about. There his only consolation was that the board might have done worse. But he also got a little help...
...Alcohol Argument (TIME, June 1) has obscured and delayed the buna program at its raw-materials base. It was raging hotter than ever last week when Leon Henderson's OPA (presumably hoping to pick up some much-needed Congressional good will) suddenly came out on the alcohol side. But it is now decided: for the 700,000 tons of buna for 1944, alcohol (from wheat or molasses) will contribute some 220,000 tons-about all the alcohol producers can spare from their commitments for explosives. Yet, even though the program is set, the arguments continue...
Naturally Congress tied some strings to this bill, but it saved its ball and chain for Leon Henderson. The grants will not exceed $500 a year, which may not be enough in many cases, and will be repayable loans and not full scholarships. The loans are specifically provided for seven fields of study; engineering, physics, chemistry, medicine, veterinary, dentistry, and pharmacy. Only students who can complete their education in the next two years will receive them. While it may plug the biggest gaps, the bill does not provide for all the specialists now needed. And it will have...