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Manager Van Namee reported that the Smith campaign had contained $103,310, of which $92,090.28 was expended. The balance, he hoped, would last until June 26. He named the contributors ? William Henry Todd, shipbuilder; James J. Riordan, banker; Herbert Lehman, banker; Henry Morganthau, onetime Ambassador; George Gordon Battle, lawyer; James W. Gerard, onetime Ambassador; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas W. Kelly, Anna E. Felix, etc., etc. And told about the biggest contributor of all, William F. Kenny, contractor, who had given $20,000 and loaned $50,000 without security...
Through Henry Morganthau, returning to the U. S. from relief work abroad, Greece, oldest and youngest republic in the world, offered to loan the U. S. "for any length of time the Government may desire it," the most beautiful statue bequeathed to her by antiquity. The statue is Hermes Carrying the Infant Dionysus, the chef d'oeuvre of Praxiteles, famed Greek sculptor of the 4th Century...
...Henry Morganthau, former ambassador to Turkey: "Syud Hossain, the Ghandist, questioned the accuracy of some of my statements from the platform of the Community Forum. I shook my finger under his nose and told him it was a dirty, contemptible trick...
Greece, who is now dealing with affairs in Turkey, is much too weak for the task. This Mr. Morganthau represented to Mr. Venizelos at the Peace Conference in 1919, but that statesman whom the speaker characterized as one of the greatest men of the age, while admitting the truth of Mr. Morgenthau's assertion, said that to withdraw the Greek troops from Asia Minor would be fatal to his ministry. Mr. Venizelos' ministry has fallen, and the Greek troops remain in Turkey, but they are accomplishing nothing...