HUGE SALE !! Henry Morgenthau #2 (2nd Sec.of Treasury-F.D.R.) +GIFT

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SET # 2 68)
Henry Morgenthau
(2
nd
Secretary of Treasury- F.D.R. Presidency) –
dated November 3 & 13 1930, letterhead TAGORE RECEPTION COMMITTEE 20 West 43
rd
Street New York
. 1 signed letter and carbon reply
. The first letter is in reference to thanking Mr. Colby for his acceptance on membership of the Tagore Committee of which Mr. Morgenthau was the Chairman.
(Historical notes -
(2nd Secretary of Treasury- FDR Administration
)
(May 11, 1891 – February 6, 1967)
In 1933, Roosevelt became President and appointed Morgenthau governor of the
Federal Farm Board
. Morgenthau was nonetheless involved in monetary decisions. Roosevelt adopted the idea of raising the price of gold to drive down the value of the dollar, thereby raising the price of all goods — especially farm goods. The idea came from Professor George Warren of Cornell University, and despite the opposition to the idea, Morgenthau was willing to help him. When Roosevelt told Morgenthau he was thinking of raising the price of gold by 21 cents, his entourage asked him why. "It's a lucky number," Roosevelt said. "Because it's three times seven." As Morgenthau later wrote, "If anybody knew how we really set the gold price through a combination of lucky numbers, etc., I think they would be frightened." In 1934, when
(
William H. Woodin
#70)
resigned because of poor health, Roosevelt appointed Morgenthau
Secretary of the Treasury
(an act that enraged
conservatives
). Morgenthau was an orthodox economist who opposed
Keynesian economics
and disapproved of some elements of Roosevelt's
New Deal
. To finance
World War II
, he initiated an elaborate system of marketing
war bonds
. The Great Depression and its rampant unemployment were of primary focus for Morgenthau. And after almost two terms served by Roosevelt, Morgenthau, assessed the federal effort to relieve economic conditions by proclaiming, “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. . . . After eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started . . . and an enormous debt to boot! Indeed, the unemployment rate for 1939 was higher than the unemployment rate for 1931, but lower than 1932. Morgenthau used his position as Treasury chief to investigate organized crime and government corruption. Treasury Intelligence and other agencies (the notoriously fragmented US federal law enforcement system had five in the Treasury Department alone) were uncoordinated in their efforts; efforts to create a super-agency were stalled by J. Edgar Hoover, who feared his FBI would be overshadowed. Nevertheless, Morgenthau created a coordinator for the Treasury agencies; although the coordinator could not control them, he could move them to some cooperation. Investigations of official corruption caused the fall of political boss
Thomas "Big Tom" Pendergast
of Kansas City. A Mafia-related shootout and massive official corruption led to successful investigations against the local Mafia head
Charles Carollo
and Tom Pendergast.
Other officials—as well as gangsters, in a few rare cases—were convicted because of Morgenthau's investigations.)
Morgentaus autographs are rare and extremely hard to find at auction or sale.  THe only google information on sales or auctions ranged between 0.00 & 9.00.
I enjoy updating my auctions with new information and corrections.  So please "if.." you can provide me with any recent (last 2 years) or present auctions for similar handwritten documents to other important historical figures with provenance and being personal in nature (with reply) I would be happy to look at them and their estimated values.  Please do not waste our time with clip signature's or signed photos as they are not in the same category as what I am offering by any means.
MOST OF OUR AUCTIONS ARE HUGELY IMPORTANT AMERICAN HISTORICAL FIGURES AND DOCUMENTS OF THIS NATURE SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST ANYWHERE AT ANY COST.
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INFO ON THE HONORABLE BAINBRIDGE COLBY
Up for auction are the items shown in the scans.  The Honorable Bainbridge Colby- (Woodrow Wilsons last Secretary of State and Mark Twains lawyer, as well as the man who ratified the 19th amendment which gave woman the right to vote !!!, I have seen on the net that Mr. Colbys autograph alone has sold for between .00 and .00. And since carbon relies of the era did not come with signatures I have decided to add a check and signature so as to add a direct provenance to your acquisition. . He was a gentleman who helped shape the U.S. Political foreign affairs during the 1920's - 1940's. I grew up in his hometown and the caretaker for the family estate called Little Brook Farm, at Sunset Bay, near Bemus Point. The Colby family farms caretaker after Mr. Colby’s death in 1950 and Mrs. Colby’s death in 1963 was my Sunday school teacher (Mr Sydney Taylor) in the Maple Springs Interdenominational church from when I moved there in 1964 until his death in 1967. Us kids would walk Mr. Taylor home several miles each Sunday after church through the beautiful woods that later became Long State Park after Mr. Taylor passed away and we would help him in his duties of cleaning up the property and my father would haul the truckloads of junk we piled up every few weeks to the Ellery Center Dump which is when I kept a couple small boxes of the stuff and carried around until I began to research it this past two years. I just kick myself now realizing that we must have thrown away several tons of paperwork and old books that were most probably filled with original mark Twain items and other significant words of men and woman’s gifts, books, manuscripts that today would be a treasure of Americana history. I just thank God that Mr. Taylor told me to save the little bit.
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