One Year: 1942 | 1. The Most Hated Man in America
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Leon Henderson's Office of Price Administration
In May 1942, Leon Henderson required every large retail store in America to post a maximum price for pretty much every item. Newsweek magazine called it totalitarian. One member of Congress said, America must destroy the OPA or the OPA will destroy America at the end of it. When the Democrats got trounced in the November midterms, that was it.
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