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...Notably: James A. Farley (TIME, June 23), Henry Morgenthau Jr. (TIME, Sept. 29), James F. Byrnes (TIME, Oct. 20), Henry L. Stimson (TIME, Jan. 5), Cordell Hull (TIME, Jan. 12). * From Morgenthau's memoirs: "I remember John Garner turning to me one day in Cabinet meeting and saying, half jokingly, half not, 'Damn you old moneybags. Until you came along Mrs. Garner and I averaged 16% a year on our money, and now we can't get better than...
...additions to the seven-man committee include: Gerald H. Fisher '49, Charles T. Hesse '50, Brantley Harris '49, and Morton D. Hull...
...Fast, Too Far. The only basic differences between Hull and Roosevelt cropped up in domestic matters. Hull remembered those differences with a wince. "I was frankly glad not to be invited into the White House groups where so often the 'liberal' game was played on an extreme basis." He once said to Roosevelt: "I can't help but feel that you're going too fast and too far with certain of your domestic reforms...
With the same alacrity shown by ex-Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, Hull hastened to divorce himself from any part in the Roosevelt spending program: "[I] stood for a fixed policy of balanced budgets...
...World War I. Aboard her, the Germans surrendered their Navy in 1918. During World War II, she almost met an ignominious end. In 1942, as she lay moored in the shallows of Alexandria harbor, Italian "human torpedoes" got in under her, attached time charges, blew great holes in her hull. Patched in the U.S., she finished out the war in the East Indies...