Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...questions of taxation and inflation Senator George does not see eye to eye with the Administration. He is in favor of a sales tax, which the President opposes. He favors compulsory savings, which Henry Morgenthau opposes. He opposes subsidies, and about a year ago expressed himself against price ceilings, arguing in favor of increased production of civilian goods to hold prices down through normal competition, and the normal operation of supply & demand. George had raised an alarm over Army spending. He insisted that somewhere, some place, some time, there must be a limit to war spending. He does...
...Hyde Park's library. U.S. Army actors were ready to give the five one-acters, written by Army men, which had recently tickled Broadway on a one-night stand. Settling down for the show, Franklin D. Roosevelt grinned back at Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, Vincent Astor and assorted gold braid. The President shed his coat, advised others to do the same. The third play was a well-sustained gag by First Class Private Irving Gaynor Neiman about a barracks butt who was kidded into thinking that Myrna Loy was coming to see him. In Broadway...
Chairman of the committee will be brainy, sartorially elegant Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State. Other members: Herbert H. Lehman, Edward R. Stettinius Jr. (Lend-Lease), Milo Perkins (Board of Economic Warfare), Henry Morgenthau (Treasury...
This might be good news. The Administration's whcle wartime tax policy has been befogged. The President himself reflected some of his Administration's confusion last week: at one press conference he appeared to demand compulsory savings; at the next-presumably in deference to Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, who had just repudiated them- he took it all back. He also repeated his opposition to a general sales tax, the one big revenue producer which Congress might pass quickly...
...Others who take their exercise on horseback are Secretary of the Treasury Henry L. Morgenthau and Justice Robert H. Jackson. But the rest-men like War Mobilization Chief James F. Byrnes, Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt, OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown and WPBoss Donald Nelson-take the easiest way. Like top-flight Army & Navy men, they have rediscovered walking...