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the position of the head of the Treasury Department
the position of Treasury Secretary was created in 1789 -
the person who holds the secretaryship of the Treasury Department
Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury
How To Use Treasury Secretary In A Sentence
- The verbal sabre rattling by US Treasury Secretary Geithner is a threat to the open global trading system.
- But those stinkpots just happened to belong to very powerful political patrons (some of whom now sit on his cabinet, like the Treasury Secretary).
- Irish rock star Bono and US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill were due to start a three-day visit to Uganda on Sunday, the third leg of an unusual tour focussing on HIV/AIDS and the efficacity of aid relief in Uganda. ANC Daily News Briefing
- The treasury secretary has spent virtually all of 2003 harping on the need for currency revaluation.
- In advance of this weekend's IMF-World Bank meetings, the Treasury Secretary merely put a highfalutin gloss on the same old U.S. policy that China's "overvalued" currency is the source of all global economic ills. Geithner's 'Cooperation'
- Yet the new treasury secretary nominee turned out not to be much of an improvement.
- As far back as May, The Fix wrote that Perriello "is deeply skeptical about the approach the White House has taken to Wall Street and describ [es] Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner as a clone of Bush Administration Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Perriello beat Boehner to the punch on call for Geithner firing
- Hours before the vote, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner praised what he called her "exceptional talent and broad experience. New IMF Chief Widely Respected
- In late 2008, a lengthy Chinese-language essay circulated online excoriating Mr. Zhou and other top officials for being too close to the U.S., accusing them of having "colluded" with then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to buy U.S. bonds. Chinese Express Wary Faith in Fannie, Freddie Debt
- Years later, amid Cold War tensions, Democratic President John F. Kennedy chose Republican Douglas Dillon as Treasury Secretary.