Word: morgenthau
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel memorial service, attended by more than 70 people, took place in Hillel's Morgenthau Chapel...
Blacks are not unanimously grateful for the attention. Along with whites, they remember that Mason unsuccessfully challenged Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau at the polls three years ago, and some suspect that the lawyers are not above advancing their personal ambitions. Moderates of all races have winced at reports that Mason and Maddox have established ties with the fiery black Muslim Louis Farrakhan...
With these events in mind, Henry Morgenthau Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, proposed a plan which, in the words of one historian, would "pastoralize" Germany...
...Morgenthau plan "enjoyed a very brief ascendancy," says Maier. "Morgenthau had a privileged access to Roosevelt. When people saw that the war was going to end quickly, Roosevelt briefly entertained the idea...
...American victory become imminent, the Morgenthau plan to de-industrialize Germany was increasingly at odds with dominant opinion. By 1945 the plan "was only being taken seriously by Morgenthau himself," Lee says...