Morgenthau
Americannoun
-
Henry, 1856–1946, U.S. financier and diplomat, born in Germany.
-
his son Henry, Jr., 1891–1967, U.S. statesman: Secretary of the Treasury 1934–45.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Then he segued to where his mind had been all day, providing one of the soliloquies that would be included in the footage that Morgenthau released immediately after they finished taping it to a local television station in New York City, portions of which would be aired that very evening on the news: “That’s part of the dilemma of being an American Negro,” Baldwin said, “that one is a little bit colored and a little bit white, and not only in physical terms but in the head and heart.”
From Slate
It was in the context of these discussions that Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau put forth a plan in 1944 to destroy Germany’s industries so the country could never remilitarize.
From Slate
Among Trump’s prized relationships was with Robert Morgenthau, the Manhattan district attorney for decades.
From Seattle Times
While Morgenthau was in office, he would joke privately that his pet charity, the Police Athletic League, was the only one to which Trump routinely donated.
From Seattle Times
And when Trump supported Morgenthau politically, some Trump Organization officials were told they needed to write checks of their own to the district attorney’s campaign, according to two people familiar with what took place.
From Seattle Times
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.