Tag: Morgenthau Plan

Congressman Francis Case (R-South Dakota), 1937-51. Later a US Senator. (Official portrait from Wikipedia)

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One of the most fascinating documents I’ve read in recent months is the proudly-titled “Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives. Eighteenth Congress. First session on the Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill for 1947.”

The so-called Subcommittee on Deficiencies consisted of Chairman John Taber (New York), Clarence Cannon (Missouri), Francis Case (South Dakota), Albert J. Engel (Michigan), Frank B. Keefe (Wisconsin), John H. Kerr (North Carolina), George H. Mahon (Texas), Karl Stefan (Nebraska), and Richard B. Wigglesworth (Massachusetts), and it was tasked with the eternal job of governments everywhere: Finding out where the money went and how to get some more. (more…)

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This was supposed to be a year-end book roundup, but I had a difficult end of year. So for the present I’ll pretend this is the 53rd or 54th week of 2023 (a nasty year altogether).

When my husband died a few weeks ago, I found a number of “overdue” library books in all manner of places. I stacked them by the door. That’s pretty much how we did things here. He’d take out a lot of books and then, when he saw me making an exit, he’d go, “Oh, if you’re going out, could you take those back to the library?” He’d say that even if I was just going out to the trash bay. (more…)