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Besides Chairman Wallace, the SPABoard consists of War Secretary Henry L. Stimson; Navy Secretary Frank Knox; William S. Knudsen, OPM's Director-General; Sidney Hillman, labor's man; Harry L. Hopkins, Lend-Lease Administrator, Defense-Aid director; and Leon Henderson in charge of Civilian Supply...
Left entirely independent was Mr. Henderson's Office of Price Administration (OPA). Prices will still be managed by Leon Henderson, who became a split personality. He will be his own liaison man between his two selves, managing civilian supply from his vantage point on the SPABoard, controlling prices from a vantage point...
...Leon Henderson got even more out of the reorganization, in some ways, than did his colleague Nelson. The bulgy, cigar-eating Price Boss became one of the Big Seven SPABoard-members to manage Civilian Supply. "The Great Jawbone" will have a voice with all other members in every problem of allocation and priorities; he remains Price boss, responsible only to the President, free to exercise his now-famed method of "jawbone control" of inflation...
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