treasury

     

A treasury is any place where the currency or items of high monetary value are kept. The term was first use in Classical times to describe the votive buildings erected to house gifts to the gods, such as the Siphnian Treasury in Delphi or many similar buildings erected in Olympia, Greece by competing city-states to impress others during the ancient Olympic Games.

Trivia about treasury

  • The seal of this government cabinet department is featured on the front
  • The Internal Revenue Service
  • A SURE TRY
  • The United States Mint
  • From 1988 to 1993 Nicholas Brady was Secretary of this, so he was always on the money
  • Postage stamps are printed by the Bureau of Engraving & Printing, a division of this cabinet dept.
  • The U.S. Customs Service, which collects duties on imports, is an agency of this cabinet department
  • The Secret Service
  • The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
  • The Bureau of Engraving & Printing
  • The 1789 act that created it specified that its officers would include a comptroller & an auditor
  • Roger B. Taney, after fighting the Bank of the U.S.,1834
  • This cabinet department's seal appears on all U.S. paper currency
  • Alexander Hamilton was the first secretary of this government department
  • Alexander Hamilton,Lloyd Bentsen,George Shultz
  • Paul O'Neill,John Snow,Henry Paulson, Jr.
  • At the site for this government department, you can "Design Your Own Bill" & send it to others--but don't spend it
  • Bilirubin is a bile pigment; Robert Rubin was Secretary of this, 1995-1999

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