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17 unusual facts about United States Department of the Treasury


Affiliates to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

In 2007, TRO was designated by the United States Department of the Treasury under the Executive Order 13224, aimed at financially isolating US designated foreign terrorist groups and their support network.

Almanzo W. Litchard

He also visited Mount Vernon, the U.S. Treasury, and the Smithsonian Institution during his excursions into town.

Benjamin Akzin

He spent a period with the legal department of the Library of Congress and was then appointed to a position on the staff of the War Refugee Board (WRB), which had been established by president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, under pressure from the United States Congress, Jewish activists and the Treasury Department.

Great Wall Airlines

The airline suspended operations on 18 August 2006 after its parent company, China Great Wall Industry, had sanctions imposed on it by the United States Department of the Treasury for allegedly supplying missile technology to Iran.

Greta Kempton

Her works are in the collections of the White House, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Harry S. Truman Library, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, the National Portrait Gallery, and a number of museums.

James Wood Davidson

After 1887, he was employed in the Treasury Department at Washington.

John Dierkes

Instead, Dierkes went to work for the U.S. Treasury Department which coincidentally sent him to Hollywood to function as technical advisor for the film To the Ends of the Earth (1948).

Landfill gas utilization

The Department of the Treasury, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, and Department of Commerce all provide federal incentives for landfill gas projects.

Madigan's Millions

It stars Dustin Hoffman, in his first movie role, as Jason Fister, a young U.S. Treasury Dept. official sent to Rome to recover a large sum of money owed to the United States government by a deceased mobster.

Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society Medal

At the Society's request, Marshall contacted James Ross Snowden, director of the United States Mint, who forwarded the request to the Department of the Treasury.

Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

Funding sources for the services listed above include the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Treasury Department, United States Department of Health and Human Services, United States Department of Energy, and State of Texas general revenue funds.

United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government

The new subcommittee is responsible for funding general provisions of the federal government, with primary jurisdiction over discretionary spending of the Treasury Department, the United States federal judiciary, and the District of Columbia.

This subcommittee has jurisdiction over the budget for the United States Department of the Treasury and General Government (includes United States federal courts, the Executive Office of the President of the United States, and Washington, D.C. appropriations).

United States Senate Banking Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection

It also oversees the Federal Home Loan Bank System, regulatory activities of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision within the Treasury Department, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the National Credit Union Administration

Ware Group

Harry Dexter White, then Director of the Division of Monetary Research in the United States Department of the Treasury, was also allegedly affiliated with the group.

Werner von Clemm

The operation was stumbled upon by mistake by agents of the Treasury Department when they searched a Budweiser beer box being carried by two American soldiers of German descent.

Winchester measure

In 1836, the United States Department of the Treasury formally adopted the Winchester bushel as the standard for dealing in grain and, defined as 2,150.42 cubic inches, it remains so today.


Agricultural Adjustment Act

He could have the U.S. Treasury issue up to $3 billion in greenbacks, reduce the gold content of the dollar by as much as 50 percent, or accept 100 million dollars in silver at a price not to exceed fifty cents per ounce in payment of World War I debts owed by European nations.

Arnold Weiss

After returning to the United States after completing his military service, Weiss earned a degree in law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and worked for the United States Department of the Treasury, where he participated in the establishment of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Legislative Affairs

The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Legislative Affairs is the head of the Office of Legislative Affairs in the United States Department of the Treasury.

Chartis

As part of the financial crisis of 2007–2008, AIG suffered a liquidity crisis resulting in it being bailed out by the Federal Reserve, and the United States Department of the Treasury receiving warrants to acquire a controlling stake in the company.

Chief financial officer

The CFO Act also established the CFO Council, chair by the OMB Deputy Director for Management and including the CFOs and Deputy CFOs of 23 federal agencies, the OFFM controller, and the Fiscal Assistant Secretary, the head of the Office of Fiscal Service of the Department of the Treasury.

Conrad N. Jordan

A Democrat, Jordan supported Grover Cleveland in the 1884 presidential election and worked with the campaign team drawing up plans to reform the United States Department of the Treasury.

Doris Dungey

One of her final posts to the blog, in September 2008, criticized a proposed aspect of the 2008 bailout plan, which would have had the United States Department of the Treasury purchase bad loans directly from banks.

Garfinckel's Department Store

Garfinckel's Department Store is an eight-story department store building, erected at the northwest corner of 14th and F Streets, across from the Willard Hotel, which is one block from the Treasury Department and less than two blocks from the White House.

Howard M. Guthmann

In 2006, Guthmann was appointed by the United States Department of the Treasury to the National Tax Advocacy Panel where he served as an advocate for taxpayers at the Internal Revenue Service.

Jacob Davis Productions

JacobDavis Productions is known for creating card stunts for the National Football League, Major League Baseball, NASCAR, College football games, and the U.S. Treasury Department.

Paul Volcker

In 1962, Robert Roosa, who had been his mentor at the Federal Reserve, hired him at the Treasury Department as director of financial analysis.

Robert Jones Atkinson

He was President of the Ohio Senate in 1854, and was an appointed official in the United States Department of the Treasury 1854 to 1864.

Truman N. Burrill

Truman N. Burrill (1832–1896) was an official in the United States Department of the Treasury who was Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from 1883 to 1885.

U.S. Bomb Data Center

With the implementation of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the responsibilities of the center were transferred from the United States Department of the Treasury to within the United States Department of Justice.