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...regional center in Chicago, Professor Hans J. Morgenthau of the University of Chicago and Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) will talk about the Vietnam war to colleges in the Midwest and West...
...Hans Morgenthau, professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, Robert Novac, the political columnist, and Adam Yarmolinsky '43, professor of Law, will speak on "The Johnson Presidency: An Appraisal" at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...diaries of the era, Morgenthau described the scene in Roosevelt's bedroom at daily meetings to set the bidding price for gold. The reclining President "would eat his soft-boiled eggs" while aides discussed the price the U.S. should pay. Once, when Morgenthau was gloomier than usual, Roosevelt decreed a 21? increase because "three times seven is a lucky number." Only later did Morgenthau realize that The Chief was joking. Thanks largely to Morgenthau's stewardship, the dollar by 1939 was the world's strongest currency...
Spam & Destroyers. A German Jew by descent (his grandfather settled in the U.S. in 1866), Morgenthau recognized sooner than most the threat posed by Hitler's rise. He advocated and largely directed the American effort to gear for war. At the end of his career, he looked back with justifiable pride on the days when he helped procure everything from Spam to destroyers for Britain, and drafted the Lend-Lease Act. Then he had the tasks of financing the U.S. war effort-the biggest budgets in the nation's history up to that time-and of making plans...
Died. Henry Morgenthau Jr., 75, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1934 to 1945; of heart disease; in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (see The Nation...