Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry Morgenthau [then Secretary of the Treasury] . . . kept wanting to know where he stood [with Truman] and finally, one day, put the question point-blank to the President. What happened then reminds me of the epitaph I once saw on a tombstone in a Western mining town :He kept asking for it until...
...loyal but fidgety Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.: "Henry works himself up. ... I'll have to rub his brow and he'll be all right...
...back into the wall, where you came from." Whit Burnett left garrulous Ilka Chase speechless when he told her that her In Bed We Cry was "written from the groin." Rockwell Kent and James T. Farrell began a celebrated feud on the show. Dorothy Thompson ripped into Author Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Germany Is Our Problem) with such vigor and at such length that the moderator had to reach over the table and grab her by the arms to make her shut up. She sheepishly admitted: "I guess I am getting old and can't stop talking...
University of Chicago Roundtable (Sun. 1:30 p.m., NBC). Topic: "Moscow Peace Conference: The Future of Europe." Speakers: British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee (TIME, March 17), Hunter College's President George N. Shuster, the University of Chicago's Hans Morgenthau...
...work was a breeze. The President combined social affairs (see The Capital) with business (principal item: a labor arbitration plan for the building industry), and had time left over to think about a bill which would prevent top officials from taking along government documents (such as the voluminous Morgenthau diary) when they leave Washington. For the second time this year he called in GOP and Democratic Congressional leaders for a "congenial meeting." Again they discussed such safe topics as extending the Maritime Commission's ship operating authority...