Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loan VI will be the toughest one yet to sell. Even so, said Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, its $14,000,000,000 goal is set far too low. It will pay for less than two months of war. Franklin Roosevelt released a whopping figure as proof: the war is now costing the U.S. $250,000,000 a day. Said Secretary Morgenthau: there will eventually have to be a War Loan...
...open back seat of a Packard touring car, Candidate Roosevelt set out, bundled to his white-stubbled chin in a beaver-collared overcoat, his old brown campaign fedora scrunched on his balding poll. Beside him sat Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, shivering in a lightweight topcoat, his nose and chin blue with cold. The sky was lead-colored, the wind sharp. Franklin Roosevelt coughed occasionally and his eyes watered behind his pince-nez. But at Poughkeepsie, Wappingers Falls, Kingston and Newburgh, he waved his arm, grinned, bobbed his head vigorously, spoke cheerfully to the street crowds...
...cover. The big radio, provided by NBC, began to announce returns. Secretary Grace Tully and Mrs. Ruth Rumelt, Steve Early's secretary, moved in & out with flashes from A.P. and U.P. tickers. Around the big-table, individual state scores were kept by the President's intimates: Henry Morgenthau, Admiral Leahy, Steve Early, Samuel Rosenman, Robert Sherwood. As "managing editor," the President assembled the totals...
...other the Four Freedoms (TIME, Aug. 23, 1943). Washington, for the next 15 months, did not even hint who would redeem the $350,000,000 worth of invasion money (pegged rate: 100 lire to a dollar) which the U.S. and Britain subsequently issued in Italy. Said Treasury Secretary Morgenthau cryptically : redemption was a matter for the peace table...
...fact seemed clear: the bitter and extended fighting in Italy had forced the U.S. to drop the plan which Secretary Morgenthau once implied would saddle enemy countries with at least part of the cost of invasion. Now, the U.S. may have to pay as it goes, and try to collect at some future peace table...