Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind did not approve of President Roosevelt devaluing the dollar, and he spoke out against it. Roosevelt fired him. In a ceremony of Treasury officials at the White House, at which Acheson himself was a stiff-faced participant, Roosevelt handed the Under Secretary's job over to Henry Morgenthau Jr., remarking pointedly that he hoped Morgenthau's loyalty would stand up under any test. In a strained silence Acheson marched up to the President, shook his hand and told him that he was happy to have served. The two Groton graduates surveyed each other. Roosevelt gave Acheson...
Curtis ("Buzzy") Boettiger, who recovered from a mild attack of polio six weeks ago, and his boss, Henry Morgenthau, who are making a tour of Israel for the United Jewish Appeal, were all right (except for possible jangled nerves) after a few minutes under mortar fire in Negeb...
...Deal brain-truster, he was one of the authors of the ill-famed Morgenthau Plan, which would have reduced Germany to an agrarian country. He represented the U.S. at Bretton Woods, birthplace of the World Bank. Over a year ago he had left his last Government post, as U.S. executive director of the International Monetary Fund, and become a Manhattan fiscal consultant...
...Lines; of cancer; in Manhattan. He became a partner (with the late Kermit Roosevelt) in the Roosevelt Steamship Co. in 1923, joined the U.S. Lines as vice president in 1931, served in 1939-40 as Commissioner of Customs and assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...
Most Madeira girls go to good colleges (favorites: Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr), marry comfortably, and send their daughters back to Madeira. Among past & present Madeirans: Paulina Longworth, Joan Morgenthau, Susan Saltonstall, Diana Hopkins, Laurette Soong (niece of Madame Chiang Kai-shek...