Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger told Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. that for the past ten years Japan has encouraged smugglers to peddle dope in the U.S.-in order to prepare U.S. citizens for Japanese domination...
What's a military secret these days? Is Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s vacation a military secret? Henry thinks it should be. Florida-bound, the Secretary of the Treasury asked correspondents to keep his trip dark. After two days of staring at one another with a mild surmise, newsmen squared their shoulders, got Treasury pressagents to admit that the Secretary's movements were no great military secret...
...headquarters was in a commandeered apartment house in Washington. Last September, Mrs. Roosevelt, who had been faintly critical, moved in as assistant director. Young (21), dimpled Jane Seaver, dew-fresh out of Mt. Holyoke, was appointed to the task of organizing youth. Other lady colleagues moved in. Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., perched next to Mrs. Roosevelt, mysteriously shuffled papers, kept mum. The Little Flower flapped his wings, screeched orders, left behind many a moist hanky clenched in an angry fist...
Whatever the Treasury wants on next year's war taxes, said Chairman George, the Treasury shall have, so long as it does not hinder wartime production. Mr. Morgenthau's little lunch had been a very successful party...
...loped off with a blue ribbon for meeting the Treasury emergency in song. With Connie Boswell, on his Kraft Music Hall hour Thursday night (NBC Red, 9 to 10), he plugged the pleasantest of 1941's patriotic ditties, Irving Berlin's Any Bonds Today? (copyrighted by Henry Morgenthau Jr.), with a brand-new verse...