Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,

(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. To finance World War II, he initiated an elaborate system of marketing war bonds.

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Examples of Henry Morgenthau, Jr., 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.
    • Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • 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.

  • The Election of 1960

    • Nixon chose United Nations Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. to be his running mate.
    • Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil-rights leader, was arrested in Georgia while leading a civil rights march.

  • Liberty and Property

    • Rothermel's "Patrick Henry Before the Virginia House of Burgesses", a painting of Patrick Henry's "If this be treason, make the most of it!

  • The Harlem Renaissance

    • Visual artists of the time included Charles Alston, Henry Bannarn, Leslie Bolling, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, and Archibold Motley .
    • Charles Henry Alston (November 28, 1907 – April 27, 1977) was an African-American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in Harlem.
    • In 1990 Alston's bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. became the first image of an African American displayed at the White House.

  • The War in the North

    • His successor, John Armstrong, Jr., attempted a coordinated strategy late in 1813 with 10,000 men, aimed at capturing Montreal; however, he was thwarted by logistical difficulties, uncooperative and quarrelsome commanders, and ill-trained troops.
    • The British also were decisively defeated by General William Henry Harrison's forces on their retreat toward Niagara at the Battle of the Thames in October 1813.
    • Oliver Hazard Perry's message to William Henry Harrison after the Battle of Lake Erie began with what would become one of the most famous sentences in American military history: "We have met the enemy and they are ours."

  • Movements and Reforms

    • In the same year, on September 8 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, transcendentalism became a coherent movement with the founding of the Transcendental Club by prominent New England intellectuals including Emerson, George Putnam, and Frederick Henry Hedge.
    • Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.
    • Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedience later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable figures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.