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That source tells TIME that the D.A. and the U.S. Treasury Department are separately probing and exchanging information on firms like Tyco that have slashed their taxes by incorporating in Bermuda and other offshore havens. Last Tuesday Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau journeyed to Washington to dine with David Aufhauser, general counsel of the Treasury Department, where they discussed offshore companies and possible money laundering...
...Then the U.S. joined World War II (a phrase, incidentally, that was popularized by Time magazine), and Berlin produced a new slew of patriotic songs. At the request of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, he wrote "Any Bonds Today?" - best known in the Bugs Bunny rendition - that urged Americans to buy war bonds. Berlin assigned all royalties to the Treasury Department, then wrote a variation, for another fund-raising drive, called "Any Bombs Today?" Profits from his song "Angels of Mercy" went to the American Red Cross; from "Arms for the Love of America," to the Army Ordnance Department; and from...
...father. This coincidence serves to highlight her differences with Albright, who has become the foremost proponent of an ideal-driven foreign policy. While Rice says that in foreign policy "America's values are extremely important," she hews closer to the tradition of Korbel and other realists, such as Hans Morgenthau, who place greater weight on defending strategic interests and tending to the balance of power...
Celebrity chased him at Morgenthau's office as well. "The first few days he was in the office we had people approaching us saying that a picture of him at his desk would be worth $10,000," says Michael Cherkasky, then the chief of the investigative-units division. "You would be in the elevator with John and have police officers ask him for his autograph." John worked on small cases at first--embezzlement, low-level corruption--before moving on: organized crime and racketeering, and eventually the street-crime trial division. He was an assiduous worker. "He was different, obviously...
Educated in private schools, young John Kennedy went on to Brown, where he seemed to contemplate a career on the stage, and then, changing course, to New York University Law School. He worked for Robert Morgenthau in the district attorney's office, had trouble passing his bar examination, frequented downtown night spots and figured in gossip columns. He was a magically handsome young man, irresistible to women--"the hunk," the press called him. People dismissed him as a charming lightweight...