Word: leone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the America First Committee, sponsoring the rally, from Oklahoma's Governor himself, redheaded Leon C. Phillips, came protests. From neighboring Kansas came a sizzler that scorched the grass on the prairies. Careful to point out that it did not agree with Lindbergh, William Allen White's Emporia Gazette snorted...
With the House still on vacation, Leon Henderson's price control bill still gathered dust in a drawer last week. But prices gathered neither dust nor moss...
...While Leon burned, Congress (those members who remained in Washington) fiddled. Most familiar tune was that of the Dies Committee. Ever since Henderson, in a particularly tactless moment, blurted that Martin Dies was "not a responsible member of Congress," the Dies Committee has been out to get him or his staff. Last week the committee had obtained a list of all his employes, 40 of whom (its agents contend) have written for Communist publications. These and other alleged links with Moscow will be fashioned into needles for some Congressmen to use against price controls...
...quieter attack on Henderson was under way by the Republican National Committee. Its research division circulated (among Republican members of the Banking & Currency Committee) a confidential study which blistered Leon's britches: "Table-thumping and bellowing tactics. . . . Cannot resist the use of invective . . . capricious actions . . . anti-business views." Gist of the study: a price bill is necessary but it should: 1) clearly define and limit its powers; 2) counteract "the tacit encouragement of the Administration in wage increases"; 3) give power not to Henderson but to someone who "merits the confidence of business...
...knew Mr. Eccles was surprised at his warning. Himself the No. 1 spend-in-depression, save-in-boom exponent, he has lately also been an ardent supporter of Leon Henderson's efforts to stop inflation by saving the consumer from himself. To Henderson, the 18-month limit on time sales of consumers' durable goods looks generous. Henderson had already persuaded Eccles to include furniture in his list of controlled goods. Now he pushed him into threatening still sharper restrictions...