Word: morgenthau
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...words of that incurable optimist, Mr. Wilkins Micawber, rang in the ears of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau last week, Mr. Morgenthau gave no sign. He had just floated the biggest peacetime loan in U.S. history-$1,504,425,000* to keep the Government going until Dec. 1. This loan brought the U.S. national debt to a record high...
...debt limit, set by Congress earlier this year, is only $65,000,000,000. Within the next few months Mr. Morgenthau will have to borrow several more billions. Before another year is out, Mr. Morgenthau will probably have to ask Congress to up the limit again...
...make these increased benefits possible, Congress will have to raise substantially the tax on payrolls-now 5% for employer and employe together. Upping old-age payments another 4%, as suggested by Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau (see p. 77), would bring the total tax to 9%: 3% paid by the worker, 6% by the employer. Other proposals suggested by various White House advisers might raise the tax to as much as 15% or 20%, might increase the employe's load more than the employer's. With this burden added to all his other taxes (see p. 16), the worker...
...automobile, stood with his back to the wall at a party. A nightclub comic threw a glass of ice water in Heckler Jack Oakie's face. Mexico City police hunting a stolen car stopped a sedan, apologized to Carol of Rumania. They had the wrong number. Passenger Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s nose was buried in a book when his plane ripped through a treetop, mangled the landing gear. At Philadelphia it did a groundloop. Declared Morgenthau: "I had no fears...
Rosenstiel did not stop there. War-wise, he wanted to find some defense work for his industry. Last summer, while distillers were still romping outside the defense corral, he put his ideas on paper, sent them to President Roosevelt, his good friend Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, his many distilling pals. Main points of the report: 1) by re-using containers (now restricted by law) the industry could save 500,000 oaken barrels, 700,000,000 bottles, 20,000,000 paperboard cases annually. 2) With the "thin slop" now thrown away, the industry could feed vitamin B2 to millions of cattle...