Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Named as a speculator last week was former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. Last summer, when the price of corn was swiftly rising, he was on the short side (i.e., betting that the price would go down). Said Morgenthau: "It is obvious I had no inside information...
Said ex-Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau: "A lot of people are talking about what President Roosevelt would or would not do. Well, when he was alive he carefully weighed Truman and Wallace. He chose Truman and that's good enough...
...they had just lifted from a department-store watchman, obligingly held open a door on their way out for four store employees, who had been working late. "Aren't you new here?" asked one of the employees. "Yes," said one,of the robbers. "What's your name?" "Morgenthau." "Oh, that's a good name. You must have lots of money." "I have, replied the thug...
Blackened chimneys were all that remained of two resort hotels, the Belmont and the Malvern. The summer homes of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart, Conductor Walter Damrosch, the late Henry Morgenthau Sr. and scores of other wealthy people had burned as though they were built of butter pats and bacon rinds. U.S. cancer research had received a terrible blow. The red-brick Jackson Memorial Laboratory, with its irreplaceable records and 90,000 precious mice, which had been carefully inbred for generations to produce various manifestations of cancer, had been destroyed...
...such other parts of Yugoslavia as they may deem necessary, to see for themselves what the true situation is." The Americans whom Sava N. Kosanovich, Yugoslavia's Ambassador to Washington, officially invited without prior warning: former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes; former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Harold E. Stassen; Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick; John Gunther (Inside U.S.A.); Hanson W. Baldwin, N.Y. Times military analyst and frequent target of Moscow...