Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future of Germany was central to every proposal affecting any part of postwar Europe, yet Roosevelt was not prepared for serious discussion of a German peace. At the Quebec Conference of September 1944 he had fallen for the Morgenthau plan for a "pastoralized" Germany. At Yalta he abandoned pastoralization in favor of dismembering Germany into "five or seven parts." But he had told Secretary of State Cordell Hull a few months before that no plans for Germany should be made until "we get into Germany-and we are not there...
...most famed composer. A generation later, public concerts began to thrive and noble patronage to bow out. In 20th century Europe the state shoulders the load. In the U.S., until recently, there has been only a scattering of such dedicated individuals as the late Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and Alma Morgenthau to support the creation of new music. But today, U.S. composers are witnessing the most lavish patronage boom they have ever seen...
...four to five by Professor Frances Perkins.' Later, he passed this to Jesse Jones, who was sitting next to Perkins. I looked at Jim Farley on one occasion and discovered him with his eyes closed. Bob Jackson was nodding from time to time, and, at intervals, he and Morgenthau were joking about something. Hull sat with the air of an early Christian martyr, with his hands folded, looking at the edge of the table without seeing it or anything else. I think that he was totally oblivious as to what was going on. As usual. I studiously avoided being...
...John Beaty has developed some strong opinions and theories about the U.S., and he has never been one to refrain from spouting them in class. Once he spent a whole hour blasting Felix Frankfurter and Henry Morgenthau Jr. ("Now, I haven't a thing to say against the Jews . . . But for God's sake, do you think we can trust the Government of the United States to them in a crisis?"). Last year a Jewish student complained that his dominant impression of Beaty's course was "reference after reference . . . made in a slurring manner, against members...
...Chester Wilmot. 56. His bristling incorruptibility, his endless suspicion of other politicos, and his Donald Duck temper came through in The Secret Diary of this old New Dealer: 1. Henry Morgenthau...