Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week: socialite Wayne Chatfield Taylor as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice president of the Export-Import Bank. One reason: discomfort over the Administration's foreign-fiscal policy (loan to China, airplane procurement for France-see col. 2). Another reason: difficulty in getting along with Mr. Henry Morgenthau...
...ebullient, convivial Georgian of 51 who has lived up to his nickname. In 1933 Chip left his Atlanta architectural and engineering firm, which had consulted in some $250,000,000 worth of building projects before Depression, to help Businessman William Woodin as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Sober Henry Morgenthau relieved him of most of his important duties. But in Washington, where business often mixes with politics, Chip was meanwhile establishing a reputation as the Capital's greatest little mixer. After newshawks caught him and Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre at a hotel room party given by the lobbyist...
...officials announced that "Honest" Harold LeClair Ickes would have the last word upon his return from California. Meanwhile, Secretary Morgenthau issued a statement explaining that Chip's departure from the Treasury had been "voluntary and under honorable circumstances." Aggrieved Chip filed and then withdrew a $50,000 suit for slander against Representative Delacey Allen. Hot-tempered Delacey Allen offered to meet Chip Robert "with or without gloves" in the stadium at Georgia Tech's Grant Field, admission at $5 a head and the proceeds to "go toward meeting the State debt...
...these exhibitions of economy lost their significance when the public learned last week about a quiet little speech made by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to an Appropriations subcommittee in secret session last month. Testifying on the Treasury-Post Office supply bill, Mr. Morgenthau calmly observed that a public debt of $50,000,000,000 was in certain prospect for the U. S., and would by no means strain the nation's financial structure. Shocked protests answered Mr. Morgenthau. But realists on Capitol Hill knew that he was only putting it mildly. They knew that...
...Elinor Fatman Morgenthau, wife of the Secretary of the U. S. Treasury, the Treasury refunded $1,449 m overpaid income...