Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen the worst of the Drought. Rolling East next day into the mild Drought belt, he stopped at Hannibal, Mo. to help dedicate a Mark Twain Memorial bridge across the Mississippi. At Springfield, Ill. for Drought talks with Illinois officials, a telephone talk with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau gave him occasion to declare: "The obligations of the Government-of the United States-are on a sounder basis of credit than ever before in history...
Last week the President hastily summoned a tax conference at the White House. Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee and Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee dropped everything and flew to Washington to attend. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau drove around to the White House. They all had breakfast together. Afterwards they emerged, gave the official result of their conference to the Press. It was in the form of a letter from Secretary Morgenthau to the President...
Wrote Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau to Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings last week: "I was deeply shocked to learn that certain members of the Secret Service had taken it upon themselves to investigate activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ... I wish to take this opportunity to express my deep regret to you and your department for this irresponsible action and to assure you that suitable disciplinary measures will be taken...
Purred back Attorney General Cummings: "I deeply appreciate Secretary Morgenthau's fine letter. ... I regard the matter as satisfactorily terminated...
...Secret Service's scheme was known at the Department of Justice. Enraged, Attorney General Cummings declared he would resist any attempts to discredit J. Edgar Hoover or his men. Professing great surprise, the Treasury investigated its own investigators. In addition to writing Homer Cummings an apology, Secretary Morgenthau demoted Assistant Chief Murphy to a district post, Sleuth Boatwright to that of a field operative...