Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Morgenthau: "I don't understand you. You say 'degradation...
...this was painful enough to Mr. Morgenthau, but doubtless less painful than the discussion of raising the debt limit. Loyal as he is to Franklin Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau would like by this time to see the end of the Government's perennial deficit and mounting debt. Before the House committee he declared his belief that a $50,000,000,000 debt would be perfectly safe. Before the Senate committee he cited the continued demand for U. S. bonds as proof that the Federal credit has not been undermined. Senator Glass rasped, "You have maneuvered the damn thing to where...
...Vice President Garner and influential Senators like South Carolina's Byrnes would be found at Pat Harrison's side, but perhaps even loyal Chairman Bob Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee. At week's end Bob Doughton joined Pat Harrison in a joint letter to Mr. Morgenthau which could be construed either as a goodwill gesture or as another, specific challenge. In tones of warmest welcome they invited the Secretary of the Treasury to make good, after reviewing the income tax returns that will come in March 15, on his promise to ask for reduction...
...Perkins. In 1934 when outspoken Milo Perkins was running his own cotton-bagging business in Houston, he wrote Henry Wallace a hot letter denouncing administrative red tape in the first AAA, wrote an article in the Nation excoriating the shortsightedness of his fellow capitalists. In 1935 Henry Wallace hired Mr. Perkins as Assistant Secretary. He later became Assistant Farm Security Administrator, learned plenty at first hand about the woes of stricken agriculturists. Last week Washington Correspondent Alfred Stedman of the St. Paul Dispatch, who had just resigned from a $9,000-a-year publicity job with the Department, uncorked first...
...keeping with the Administration's new business appeasement drive, Mr. Wallace's Mr. Perkins proposes to hand over to Business itself the distribution of surpluses. Instead of buying surpluses direct from farmers and doling them out to the needy, FSCC will dole out tickets redeemable for food at any grocery. Grocers would do all the buying and selling, cash the tickets at post offices or other local Government agencies. Families would eventually get enough tickets to increase their food consumption 50%; i.e., a poor family spending $16 a month for food would get $8 in tickets. There would...