Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round, beaming Publisher Gannett acquired other upstate papers, added small dailies in New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, briefly entered the metropolitan field by buying and then reselling Brooklyn's venerable Daily Eagle. Nearly two years ago he bought his only magazine, The American Agriculturist, from his good friend Henry Morgenthau Jr. when that farmer-publisher became Secretary of the Treasury. Oldest (93 years) farm publication in the U. S., it has a circulation of nearly...
...time druggist who began by engraving labels for bootleg liquor, Watts turned out banknotes so perfect they fooled tellers. In the last four years it was estimated he had circulated about $1,000,000 in bogus bills, including a $20 note with which Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau fooled his underlings (TIME, Sept. 9). ¶In Newark, N. J. police headquarters, a telephone rang and a man's voice said: "I've just killed three men. Come and get me." Police sped to the address he gave, found four slug-riddled corpses. After investigation they concluded that Charles Geary, angry...
Church on Sunday, drives over his ancestral acres, an address to the local Improvement Association, a picnic on the estate of Squire Henry Morgenthau Jr., open house with family and guests coming & going-these were things that served last week to remind Squire Roosevelt of Hyde Park that he was on vacation from his job. But vacation or no vacation, he was still President of the U. S., still a practicing politician half of whose acts and more than half of whose hospitality was grist for newshawks...
...weeks ago Forrest Smith, State Auditor of Missouri, was buzzing about the Treasury Department in Washington. "Wouldn't the U. S. coin one and five-mill pieces," he begged, "to assist Missourians in paying the 1% sales tax imposed by their Legislature?" Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. assented. Franklin Roosevelt drew a picture of the coins as he would like them (TIME, Aug. 5). A bill went to the House Committee on Coinage, Weights & Measures, where Representative Lloyd Thurston of Osceola, Iowa made this proposal...
...Fishkill, N. Y. last month Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. gave his chauffeur a $20 bill to buy groceries, was surprised when the local bank declared it counterfeit, sent it back. In Washington he handed the same bogus bill to his chief clerk, asked for change, got it. Declared Secretary Morgenthau: "The joke's really on the chief clerk...