Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words of the Wallace foreign policy argument echoed and re-echoed. Onetime Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau went down the line: outlaw the atom bomb, reduce armaments, stick to the Four Freedoms of F.D.R. Said Harold Ickes: "We must spare no effort to get along with Russia...
...Treasury-John Snyder for Fred Vinson, who had succeeded F.D.R.'s Henry Morgenthau (the gain that was Vinson was lost...
...outlined the technique of forming a democratic state. First step: a provisional government should draft a federal constitution under the eyes of the Allied Control Council. He promised again: German industry would be restored. (Buried forever was the Morgenthau plan to reduce Germany to pastoral impotency.) War industries would be removed and eliminated, but Germany would be allowed to maintain "average European living standards...
While Phase II continues, there are others anxious to get themselves on record. Henry Morgenthau Jr., Dutchess County neighbor of F.D.R., is gathering material for a book. Also in the works: memoirs of Cordell Hull, and of the late Harry Hopkins, both scheduled for 1947. Jim Farley, who in 1938 got $68,500 for a not-too-revealing autobiography, is known to have a more critical book in mind, but is in no hurry; he wants to see what others tell first. So does Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, who says "I think I will just wait." The late President himself, according...
...case was once called "one of the most shocking in Treasury history" by ex-Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. As the evidence of tax evasion piled up in Manhattan federal court against Henry Lustig, owner of Manhattan's glittering, high-priced Longchamps Restaurants, Inc., it was indeed shocking. Restaurateur Lustig, who came up from peddling vegetables on Manhattan's lower East Side, had missed few tax-dodging tricks...