Word: said
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgenthau's balding brow the cares of his office were writ large. Snappishly he told newsmen: "Every day we get that much closer to the limit, but . . . that's Congress' worry, not mine. I'm not worrying about it," said worried Mr. Morgenthau, "I'm only the paymaster...
...Said the Secretary, disagreeing with his chief: when the Maritime Commission first approached him, he felt that no question of foreign policy was involved. Then he realized he had spoken hastily, believed all officials should join in preserving the absolute integrity of the Neutrality Act, advised the Commission that there should not be even the appearance of any official step or course that might negate that policy...
Next day reporters rushed to Secretary Hull's regular press conference at 12:30 p. m. "Gentlemen," said the Border Statesman, giving them a glacial stare, "I have nothing to say on the City of Flint or transference to the Panama flag...
What Mr. Morgenthau said he was not worrying about was the U. S. public debt, still climbing to alltime highs, now teetering at more than $41,168,000,000. Another thing he was presumably not worrying about was the U. S. law which flatly forbids the public debt to go over $45,000,000,000. Asked what he would do if & when the 1940 fiscal tide lapped the public debt up around King Canute Congress' shoes, he said: "I'm not going to draw checks one penny over the regular authority...
...members). Root of the indictment: a 25-year-old jurisdictional dispute between carpenters' and machinists' unions over equipment installations at the Anheuser-Busch brewery, forcing abandonment of plans to build additional aging and fermenting plants, etc., to cost from $750,000 to $2,000,000. The dispute, said an Arnold assistant, Roscoe Steffen, "could be settled in an hour if the leadership of the union [carpenters] had the interests of the public and the welfare of labor at heart...