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.

  • 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.

  • Origins 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.

  • 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.

  • The Role of the Government

    • Congressman Henry Clay was the primary advocate of this system, which had an explicitly federalist agenda; Clay was supported by the Whig party, and opposed by Jeffersonian Republicans.
    • Henry Clay says "Walk in and see the new improved grand original American System!
    • Henry Clay was a lawyer, politician, and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives.

  • Portugal and West Africa

    • Young prince Henry the Navigator was there and became aware of profit possibilities in the Trans-Saharan trade routes .
    • Henry wished to know how far Muslim territories in Africa extended, hoping to bypass them and trade directly with West Africa by sea.
    • In the next decade several captains at the service of Prince Henry - including the Genoese Antonio da Noli and Venetian Alvise Cadamosto - discovered the remaining islands which were occupied still during the 15th century.
    • Henry the Navigator in 15th century triptych of St.
    • Portuguese explorer Prince Henry, known as the Navigator, was the first European to methodically explore Africa and the oceanic route to the Indies.