Word: morgenthau
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That widely reported case no doubt chilled the courage of potential witnesses all over the country. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau notes that Edmonds' was one of those rare New York cases in which a witness was offered protection, only hours before his death. He turned it down because he had a $150-a-day heroin habit. Says the D.A.: "Junkies do not want to be kept away from their drugs...
...eight poses it has pleased him to strike. The pictures are photographed direct upon sensitized paper. To make a strip of eight pictures requires only eight minutes. A syndicate of men successful enough to know a real gold brick when they see one-including onetime Ambassador to Turkey Henry Morgenthau-had bought Inventor Josepho's device...
...dominant figure at the 1944 conference was John Maynard Keynes, then 61, the leader of the British delegation. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau led the U.S. contingent, but the real American architect of the Bretton Woods accord was Harry Dexter White, Morgenthau's plain-spoken chief adviser...
...overhaul, a necessary reform of an old reform gone awry. Beginning around 1900, indeterminate sentences?"two to five" or "ten to 20"?became common. As soon as a prisoner could convince a parole board that he had learned his lesson, he could go. Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau says that "prisoners tend to go into rehabilitation programs for the purpose of convincing the parole board that they have been rehabilitated." Prisoners are in a perpetual, anxious limbo and would generally prefer to know their release date from the outset. Time served for identical crimes can vary five-fold...
...mountains, presumably to a place of deportation in Syria, but actually to their deaths. Forbidden supplies of food and water, they were waylaid by brigands. Turkish gendarmes raped and sometimes disemboweled or cut the breasts off women before finally killing them. While the horrified U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, Henry Morgenthau Sr., appealed in vain to the Turks to stop the slaughter, hundreds of thousands of Armenians could be seen, as Morgenthau put it, "winding in and out of every valley and climbing up the sides of every mountain...