Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anatol Josepho is remembered as the "Smart-Immigrant-Who-Made-a-Million" with his Photomaton. Born in Omsk, Siberia, Josepho reached Manhattan with $30 in his pocket and a bee in his bonnet. He got imposing backing: venerable old Henry Morgenthau Sr., father of the Secretary of the Treasury, became chairman of the board of directors of Photomaton Corp., and Major General Robert Courtney Davis, onetime Adjutant General of the Army, became president of the company. Inventor Josepho got a check for a flat...
Thoroughly irritated by this state of affairs, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau wheeled into action the $2,000,000,000 Stabilization Fund, prime financial mystery of the New Deal. Operating through the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the Stabilization Fund waded into the market, bought French francs on a vast scale, took some of the starch out of the perky dollar...
...Banking bills, in a special category, will be submitted to the special loan committee headed by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau...
Last week Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr. performed an official chore for her husband when she sat through ten reels of a foreign film and pondered for the Secretary of the Treasury the question of whether or not its public showing in the U. S. would damage the morals of the nation. Last November a print of Extase had been seized by customs inspectors under the indecency provisions of the Tariff Act when an attempt was made to import it in Manhattan. But when the time came last week to preview the picture in Washington, Secretary Morgenthau found himself so busy...
...film should eventually reach the U. S. was a foregone conclusion. Its importer is one Sam Cummins, whose Eureka Productions have released such films as Man of Courage and War Is a Racket. Whether or not he would get it into the country depended last week on what Mrs. Morgenthau, the General Counsel to the Secretary of the Treasury, the General Counsel for the Customs Bureau, and Huntington Cairns, a Baltimore lawyer and critic who is morals arbiter for the Treasury, thought of what they saw at Extase's first private screening. Before she went home to tell...