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...Sacrificed Price Boss Leon Henderson to Congressional critics, decided to appoint Michigan's Senator Prentiss M. Brown in his place (see below...
...succeed volcanic Leon Henderson as Price Boss (see above), Franklin Roosevelt last week chose a man who seldom erupts: able, steady, slow-burning Senator Prentiss Marsh Brown of Michigan, 53, a Democrat and-through no fault of his own-a lame duck. Senator Brown did not want the job: after his defeat by Michigan's popular Judge Homer Ferguson last month (TIME, Nov. 16), he was ready to go back home to resume his law practice. But when the White House put the job up to him as a patriotic duty, conscientious Prentiss Brown had no choice...
...member of the Senate's Banking and Currency Committee, Prentiss Brown did more than any other one man to write Franklin Roosevelt's new inflation controls (over wages and farm prices) into law last fall. In a single powerful speech-one of the greatest of the 77th Congress-he shattered farm-bloc opposition, saved the day for the Administration, earned Franklin Roosevelt's gratitude. Like many a good man before him, he now takes his reward in a harder, meaner assignment: a job that nobody but a Leon Henderson would want and that few men would accept...
Stocky, mild Prentiss Brown grew up in St. Ignace, Mich. (pop. 2,700), took an A.B. at Albion College, studied law in his father's office. He moved up the political ladder by slow, patient steps: county prosecutor, chairman of State conventions, Congressman. Elected to the Senate in 1936, he soon proved a greater statesman than many a man who had looked to be more of a ball-of-fire...
Michigan voters were embarrassed by their riches. For Senator they had to choose between statesmanlike Democrat Prentiss Marsh Brown, generally rated one of the dozen ablest men on Capitol Hill, and famed racket-busting Republican Judge Homer Ferguson, a great & good public servant. For Governor, they had their choice of big, able, incumbent Democrat Murray Delos Van Wagoner, or big, able Republican Secretary of State Harry F. Kelly, one of the most popular politicos Michigan ever...