Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sat in bland conclave with the Press. Deluged with questions about how the U. S. dollar and U. S. economy were faring in the worst war scare since 1914, he finally remarked: "I think we are proving to the world that the U. S. is the financial centre of the world and we can resist the kind of nervousness which people who have money are feeling at this time...
...some ten times. (C. J. Devine & Co. opened quotations on the bonds at 101 11/32 to 13/32.) Bringing the public debt to an all-time high of $38,328,000,000 and the Treasury's cash balance to a phenomenal total of some $2,300,000,000 (Secretary Morgenthau wants to be ready for any event in the U. S. or Europe),† the new money is to help finance pump-priming for Depression IΓ. Mr. Morgenthau expects to borrow about $1,400,000,000 more for the same purpose next year...
...Secretary of the Treasury Henry ("The Morgue") Morgenthau Jr. confirmed a notice issued by him in 1934 advising Treasury employes that they could contribute to party campaign funds so long as they did it voluntarily, without coercion or improper solicitation, and did not give money to "a person in the service of the United States." Chairman Sheppard of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee, who had cracked down on Internal Revenue workers for contributing to the cause of Senator-reject McAdoo of California (TIME, Aug. 8), huffed, puffed, said such a difference of opinion proved the necessity of rewriting the campaign...
Most prominent of the Riviera's simple-life addicts last week: U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Morgenthau (they enjoyed two daily swims, shunned night clubs except for one fling, got to bed at 10 every night); U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Mrs. Kennedy and eight young Kennedys; British Secretary of State for Scotland Walter Elliott (served every morning by a procession of hotel servants bringing his breakfast, hot water, clean towels); white-trousered Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich; the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. No French gendarmes watched this year...
Last week the Government of President Lázaro Cárdenas remained financially above water largely by reason of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s continued purchases of Mexican silver. Mexico was in the grip of an economic upset. One day last week the great square in front of the Presidential Palace was turned over to the 25,000 demonstrators of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). The CTM Secretary General, intense Vicente Lombardo Toledano urged support of the Mexican New Deal, proclaimed: "All property owners and capitalists in Mexico are Fascists...