Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Political Police. They announced they were putting on trial this week 21 Communists, most of whom have held official positions close to Joseph Stalin, big shots of Stalin's own party and inner clique. In equivalent U. S. terms. Defendant Rykov would be Jack Garner; Defendant Grinko-Secretary Morgenthau; Defendant Yagoda-Attorney General Cummings; Defendant Chernov- Secretary Wallace; Defendant Khodjaiev -Governor Lehman; Defendant Rakovsky-Ambassador Bullitt; Defendant Bukharin-Hugh Johnson; Defendant Levin -Dr. Alexis Carrel. "Terrific!" was Walter Duranty's adjective after studying the official charges against the 21. Correspondent Joseph Barnes remarked that "some of the crimes...
...White House for an unannounced conference went Secretaries Hull & Morgenthau, Vice President Garner, Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee. Reluctantly, President Roosevelt later admitted that they had touched briefly on the subject of war debts. None of the conferees would say anything, but no political wiseman doubted the advice they had given the President: whatever plan was suggested Congress would not like...
...oval office; they found it rigged up, as one reporter murmured sotto voce, like a college course in Economics 2A. At his desk sat the President, jovial as ever. Behind him was an easel stacked with charts. 'Primly erect, like a visiting professor, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau sat at one side, flanked by James Roosevelt, Charles Michelson, Steve Early, Marvin Mclntyre and the usual Secret Service men. First part of the lesson was the reading aloud by the President of a statement prepared for Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of Labor Perkins...
...example (too high), he pointed out that plaster prices are double those of 1929. As another example (too low) he pointed to agricultural prices, whose graphs in the last ten months resemble a precipice. Once remembering the presence of Exchange Professor Morgenthau, he paused and asked politely: "Is that right...
...said Mr. Morgenthau and relapsed into silence...