Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomatic skill, his shrewdness, his hard common sense. A great belly laugher with ideal physical equipment -he stands 5 ft. 3 and weighs 200 lb. -he gets along fabulously well with laugh-loving Franklin Roosevelt. He works well with Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry Wallace, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Lend-Leaser Major General James H. Burns...
Twenty-five-year-old Henry Morgenthau III, elder son of the Secretary of the Treasury, quit his job with FHA in Cleveland to join the Army. Brother Robert, 22, is an ensign on a destroyer...
Franklin Roosevelt took counsel with his economic-war aides in the White House last week: Vice President Henry Wallace, head of the Board of Economic Warfare; Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Leon Henderson; Federal Reserve Chairman Marriner S. Eccles; Budget Director Harold D. Smith. They went in softly by a side door, came softly out the same way. From that session, the President went straight to a conference with his Combined Labor War Board. The significance was obvious. Labor has been a chief bar to an over-all anti-inflation program. Labor, for the first time since 1933, must...
...request for more than the $7,600,000,000 increase in taxes recommended by Henry Morgenthau. Reason: the President does not think a tax-shy, election-conscious Congress will give him much more than $7½ billion-but he wants to be sure he gets that much...
...control will have to be dealt with. Chief among these necessities: 1) complete licensing and rationing; 2) rigid Government mopping up of a large part of consumer income via taxes and compulsory (if necessary) bond sales. For the long run, Leon Henderson has the price-control headache, but Henry Morgenthau has the aspirin...