Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called "parity prices" as cotton, the corn loans would be about 46? per bu. Only problem was to find the money-a problem complicated by President Roosevelt's announced determination to balance the budget (see p. 17). After a huddle with the President and Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, Mr. Wallace declared with engaging vagueness: "Money undoubtedly can be found somewhere. Human ingenuity can meet the situation...
...uninspired. "Of Thee I Sing" should have remained a final expression; "I'd Rather Be Right" has very little to add to the former's artistic trenchaney. The new work is a highly specific representation of the present administration, with ridicule hurled at everybody in it. Jim Farley, Henry Morgenthau, and Madame Secretary Perkins are undoubtedly fit subjects for the lampooner's art, and the caricatures of them are skillfully drawn. But the President is scarcely touched when an entirely different person walks about more or less in his likeness, although the making him out as a happy-go-lucky...
Manager of the Retail Trade Board of the Boston Chamber of Commerce since 1923 has been a ruddy, white-crested lawyer of 47 named Daniel Bloomfield. A relative by marriage of both the Morgenthau and Filene families, Dan Bloomfield began his career as Lincoln Filene's associate in Boston's big Filene department store. In 1928 he conceived an idea which seemed unlikely to set the world afire: a Conference on Distribution to parallel the conference on national and international problems held annually by the Institute of Human Relations at Williamstown, Mass. But under two enthusiasts, Dan Bloomfield...
...toward taxes and taxpayers have lately been increasingly stiffened and dominated by onetime Law Professor Herman Oliphant. Clarence Miles Charest, who held it in 1933, moved out to make room for Elijah Barrett Prettyman who moved out to make room for Robert Houghwout Jackson. When Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau's good friend Bob Jackson was elevated to Assistant Attorney General last winter, the job went to Morrison Shafroth of Denver, whose father, John Franklin Shafroth, was Governor of Colorado twice, Senator from 1913 to 1919. Last week, the post was vacant again. Secretary Morgenthau announced that Morrison Shafroth...
Said Secretary Morgenthau: "He differed with a policy I was trying to carry out." Four days later Secretary Morgenthau announced Lawyer Shafroth's successor: John P. Wenchell, heretofore an assistant Treasury general counsel...