Henry Morgenthau

(noun)

The U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He played a major role in designing and financing the New Deal.

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Examples of Henry Morgenthau in the following topics:

  • Financing the War

    • As the U.S. entered WWII, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau began planning a national defense bond program to finance the war.
    • Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., however, preferred a voluntary loan system and began planning a national defense bond program in the fall of 1940.
    • Morgenthau sought the aid of Peter Odegard, a political scientist specializing in propaganda, to draw up the goals for the bond program.
    • The first Series E bond was sold to Roosevelt by Morgenthau on May 1, 1941.

  • Reaction to the Holocaust

    • Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, the only Jewish member of Roosevelt's cabinet, to publish a white paper titled "Report to the Secretary on the Acquiescence of this Government to the Murder of the Jews. " This led to the creation of a new agency, the War Refugee Board.

  • Continuing Hardships

    • Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., expressed the frustration of many in the administration, proclaiming, "We have tried spending money.

  • The Last of the New Deal Reforms

    • Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, attacked automaker Henry Ford, steelmaker Tom Girdler, and the superrich "Sixty Families" who supposedly comprised "the living center of the modern industrial oligarchy which dominates the United States."
    • Roosevelt rejected the advice of his Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau to cut spending and announced more New Deal programs.

  • Emerson and Thoreau

    • Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were important leaders of the Transcendentalist movement.
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson(May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) and Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) were two important American writers and leaders of the Transcendentalist movement.
    • Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.

  • The Anglican Church

    • Henry VIII ascended the English throne in 1509 at the age of 17.
    • By the late 1520s, Henry wanted his marriage to Catherine annulled.
    • Henry argued that this had been wrong and that his marriage had never been valid.
    • In 1527 Henry asked Pope Clement VII to annul the marriage, but the Pope refused.
    • When Henry died in 1547, his nine-year-old son, Edward VI, inherited the throne.

  • The French Wars of Religion

    • King Henry III of France, supported by the royalists and the politiques;
    • The war began when the Catholic League convinced King Henry III to issue an edict outlawing Protestantism and annulling Henry of Navarre's right to the throne.
    • Henry III successfully prevented the junction of the German and Swiss armies.
    • On his deathbed, Henri III called for Henry of Navarre, and begged him, in the name of Statecraft, to become a Catholic, citing the brutal warfare that would ensue if he refused.
    • He named Henry Navarre as his heir, who became Henry IV.

  • Shuttle Diplomacy

    • The term was first applied to describe the efforts of United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, beginning November 5, 1973, which facilitated the cessation of hostilities following the Yom Kippur War.
    • [Henry Cabot Lodge], an old friend serving as Ambassador to Saigon, had asked me to visit Vietnam as his consultant.

  • The Investiture Controversy

    • The conflict ended in 1122, when Emperor Henry V and Pope Calixtus II agreed on the Concordat of Worms.
    • By this time, Henry IV was no longer a child, and he continued to appoint his own bishops.
    • Henry IV was succeeded upon his death in 1106 by his son Henry V, who had rebelled against his father in favor of the papacy, and who had made his father renounce the legality of his antipopes before he died.
    • Nevertheless, Henry V chose one more antipope, Gregory VIII.
    • This illustration shows Henry IV requesting mediation from Matilda of Tuscany and abbot Hugh of Cluny.

  • Conclusion: Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War

    • A series of events during and after World War II exacerbated tensions, including the Soviet-German pact during the first two years of the war leading to subsequent invasions, the perceived delay of an amphibious invasion of German-occupied Europe, the western allies' support of the Atlantic Charter, disagreement in wartime conferences over the fate of Eastern Europe, the Soviets' creation of an Eastern Bloc of Soviet satellite states, western allies scrapping the Morgenthau Plan to support the rebuilding of German industry, and the Marshall Plan.