Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cautiously given out two days after he had sailed. (It was announced in Washington that if any flying were to be done, the President and Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes would fly in separate planes-so as not to hand the Presidency over to retiring Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau in the event of a fatal accident...
...once, no one seemed to have objections to a tax plan. Even dour Henry Morgenthau, who has been flatfooted against any tax cuts till war's end, gave his blessing. There seemed little doubt that the plan would slide right through Congress...
Nevertheless, stern measures have been laid out. The latest plan for its control, "revised directive 1067," laid on President Truman's desk only ten days before war's end, followed closely the Morgenthau or "goat pasture" plan. Southern Germany would largely revert to agrarian economy. All industry capable of producing armaments (a broad definition) would be destroyed or transferred, the remainder controlled by the occupation forces. The educational system would be overhauled...
...Henry Morgenthau Sr., veteran financier and diplomat (Ambassador to Turkey, 1913-16), made his annual birthday prediction: "Billions in unused resources are going to start us off on a real era of prosperity" at war's end. On his 80th birthday, nine years ago, he predicted that his son, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., would balance the budget...
Besides the expected change in the State Department, Washington politicos expected something like this: 9 Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, would be replaced. Possible successors: California's Edwin W. Pauley. hustling treasurer of the Democratic National Committee; or John Wesley Snyder, rotund, 48-year-old St. Louis banker, close friend of the President, former executive vice president and director of the Defense Plant Corp. in Jesse Jones's RFC. (Snyder, said Washington speculation, might first become Federal Lean Administrator, succeeding Fred Vinson...