Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers still jobless, the Budget still reeling, the President appeared to have lost his urge for new projects. Nonetheless, his advisers persuaded him to try at least a grey rabbit: revision of corporate taxes deterrent to Business. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins heralded it, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau nursed it after Undersecretary John Hanes bred and produced the rabbit in the Treasury's warrens...
Early one morning last week Franklin Roosevelt called to him Secretary Morgenthau, as well as Chairman Doughton and Representative Jere Cooper of the House Ways & Means committee, and in their presence he strangled his only 1939 rabbit. He told them that the Hanes plan must not be given to Congress as an Administration plan - he wanted Congress merely to extend present corporate taxes which expire December 31, and excise taxes which expire June...
...sudden obsequies of John Hanes's rabbit were a shock to the Treasury Department and to Congress. Pat Harrison promptly declared he would try to revive it, would call up the Hanes plan for consideration by his committee. Secretary Morgenthau, asked whether the President had forbidden his Treasury men to submit their studies to Congress, tactfully replied...
...Public Health Service disliked being lumped into Security, but its protest got nowhere. A plan to consolidate the police units of the Treasury (Secret Service, Revenue, Narcotics, Customs, Alcohol) was vetoed by the President and Secretary Morgenthau as looking too much like the start of an Ogpu or Gestapo...
...gift should be administered by a commission which would command the respect not only of our own people but of all people." Mr. Neylan named Cordell Hull, Henry Morgenthau, Charles Evans Hughes, Herbert Hoover, James H. Perkins (National City Bank...