Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Sort by: Date / Title Showing Items: 1 - 25 of 53Banking and Currency: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Sixty-third Congress, First Session, on H.R. 7837 (S. 2639), a Bill to Provide for the Establishment of Federal Reserve Banks, for Furnishing an Elastic Currency, Affording Means of Rediscounting Commercial Paper, and to Establish a More Effective Supervision of Banking in the United States, and for Other Purposes
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These hearings, chaired by Robert Owen and held September 2 through October 27, 1913 were held to discuss passage of the Federal Reserve Act. They are published in three volumes, as Senate Document 232, 63rd Congress, 1st Session. An index is provided at the end of Volume III.
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63/1:S.Doc.232/
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6246370
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Banking and Currency: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Sixty-third Congress, First Session, on H.R. 7837 (S. 2639), a Bill to Provide for the Establishment of Federal Reserve Banks, for Furnishing an Elastic Currency, Affording Means of Rediscounting Commercial Paper, and to Establish a More Effective Supervision of Banking in the United States, and for Other Purposes, [issue title/date], accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=429
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Erection of an Office Building by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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These reports were submitted to accompany S. J. Res. 208, giving favorable recommendation for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to enter into contracts for the erection of buildings for its head office and Little Rock branch.
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741309880
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency and United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Erection of an Office Building by Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, [issue title/date], accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=209
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- United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
- United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
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Broker's Loans : Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, First Session, on S. Res. 113, A Resolution Favoring a Restriction of Loans by Federal Reserve Banks for Speculative Purposes, February 9, 29, and March 7, 1928
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Includes text of S. Res. 113.
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Y 4.B 22/3:B 78
OCLC:
8987996
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Broker's Loans : Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, First Session, on S. Res. 113, A Resolution Favoring a Restriction of Loans by Federal Reserve Banks for Speculative Purposes, February 9, 29, and March 7, 1928, [issue title/date], accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/congressional/1928sen_brokersloans.pdf
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Operation of the National and Federal Reserve Banking Systems. Hearings before the Committee on banking and currency, United States, Seventy-second Congress, first session, on S. 4115, a bill to provide for the safer and more effective use of the assets of federal reserve banks and of national banking asociations, to regulate interbank control, to prevent the undue diversion of funds into speculative operations, and for other purposes.
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Hearings on S. 4115, Seventy-second Congress, first session, also referred to as the Banking Act of 1932. These hearings were published in two parts: Part 1, March 23 to 25, 1932, and Part 2, March 28 to 30, 1932.
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Y 4.B 22/3:N 21/5/
OCLC:
6248973
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Operation of the National and Federal Reserve Banking Systems. Hearings before the Committee on banking and currency, United States, Seventy-second Congress, first session, on S. 4115, a bill to provide for the safer and more effective use of the assets of federal reserve banks and of national banking asociations, to regulate interbank control, to prevent the undue diversion of funds into speculative operations, and for other purposes., [issue title/date], accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=389
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Federal Credit Union System: Report [to Accompany S. 1639]
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Report No. 555
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1934/03/20,
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1934, Federal Credit Union System: Report [to Accompany S. 1639], from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/009_05_0012.pdf
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Stock Exchange Practices. Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency Pursuant to S.Res. 84 and S.Res. 56 and S.Res. 97.
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This series of hearings, also known as the Pecora Commission hearings, was conducted by a subcommittee of the United States Senate Banking and Currency Committee between 1932 and 1934. The hearings investigated stock exchange practices and their effect on American commerce, the national banking system, and the government securities market. They also addressed issues of tax evasion and avoidance. The record of the hearings includes more than 12,000 printed pages with more than 1,000 exhibits received in evidence. Originally authorized by Senate Resolution 84 on March 2, 1932, the scope of the investigation was broadened with by Senate Resolution 56 on April 4, 1933 and Senate Resolution 97 on June 8, 1933. Prior to the appointment of Ferdinand Pecora on January 24, 1933, Claude Branch, William A. Gray and John Marrinan served as legal counsel for the early hearings. The transcripts were published in two series. The initial six parts covered the the work authorized by Resolution 84. The second 20 parts and final report document the expanded scope of the investigation after the passage of Resolutions 56 and 97.
The work of this committee set the stage for the Banking Act of 1933, the Securities Act of 1933, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Parts 1-6, April 11-May 25, 1933, were digitized by Internet Archive.
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Y4.B22/3:St6/5, Y4.B2/3:ST6/2/
OCLC:
2421213, 1123946, 5620884
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Stock Exchange Practices. Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency Pursuant to S.Res. 84 and S.Res. 56 and S.Res. 97., [issue title/date], accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=87
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Amendments to Banking Laws: Report [To Accompany S. 3748]
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Report No. 1260
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1934/06/06,
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1934, Amendments to Banking Laws: Report [To Accompany S. 3748], from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/009_05_0017.pdf
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Nomination of Marriner S. Eccles to Be a Member of the Federal Reserve Board: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-Fourth Congress, First Session, April 15 and 19, 1935
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Transcript from hearings at which Eccles testified during confirmation process for appointment to Board of Governors.
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1935/04/15,
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1935, Nomination of Marriner S. Eccles to Be a Member of the Federal Reserve Board: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-Fourth Congress, First Session, April 15 and 19, 1935, from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/019_06_0013.pdf
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Nomination of Marriner S. Eccles to be a Member of the Federal Reserve Board: Hearing before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session on the Nomination of Marriner S. Eccles to be a Member of the Federal Reserve Board, April 15 and 19, 1935
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Marriner Stoddard Eccles (1870-1977) served as the 7th Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1934 until 1948. He continued as a member of the Board until 1951. He was nominated for the position by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 and confirmed by the Senate in 1935. A Utah banker and entrepreneur before and after his public service at the Treasury and Federal Reserve, he was involved in the creation of the Emergency Banking Act of 1933 and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The Eccles Building that houses the headquarters of the Federal Reserve is named after him.
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Y.4 B22/3:F 31/21
OCLC:
14066178
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Nomination of Marriner S. Eccles to be a Member of the Federal Reserve Board: Hearing before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session on the Nomination of Marriner S. Eccles to be a Member of the Federal Reserve Board, April 15 and 19, 1935, [issue title/date], accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/senate/eccles_confirmation.pdf
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Nomination of Marriner S. Eccles to be a Member of the Federal Reserve Board
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Hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, 74th Congress, 1st Session.
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1935/04/19,
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Eccles, Marriner S. (Marriner Stoddard), 1890-1977 and United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1935, Nomination of Marriner S. Eccles to be a Member of
the Federal Reserve Board, from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/013_05_0003.pdf
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Banking Act of 1935: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 1715 and H.R. 7617, Bills to Provide for the Sound, Effective, and Uninterrupted Operation of the Banking System, and for Other Purposes. Consolidated. April 19 to June 3, 1935.
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Includes testimony by Winthrop Aldrich, Marriner Eccles, Charles Hamlin, Adolph Miller, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Oliver M.W. Sprague, M.S. Szymczak, Frank Vanderlip, James P. Warburg, and Owen D. Young, among other bankers and community leaders. Senators Carter Glass and William G. McAdoo were members of this committee.
The Banking Act of 1935 reorganized the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and enlarged the supervisory powers of the FDIC.
OCLC:
15274957
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Banking Act of 1935: Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, First Session, on S. 1715 and H.R. 7617, Bills to Provide for the Sound, Effective, and Uninterrupted Operation of the Banking System, and for Other Purposes. Consolidated. April 19 to June 3, 1935., [issue title/date], accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/senate/senate_bankact1935.pdf
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To Amend the National Housing Act
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Excerpt from hearings. Statement of Marriner S. Eccles before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate. Statement of Charles Garrison Meyer. Includes markings throughout.
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1937/12/08,
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1937, To Amend the National Housing Act, from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/063_09_0001.pdf
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Works Financing Act of 1939. Hearings... on S. 2759, a bill to provide for the Construction and financing of self-liquidating projects, and for other purposes. July 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, and 20, 1939. [Excerpt]
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Includes Eccles' statement and testimony.
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1939/07/19,
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1939, Works Financing Act of 1939. Hearings... on S. 2759, a bill to provide for the Construction and financing of self-liquidating projects, and for other purposes. July 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, and 20, 1939. [Excerpt], from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/064_11_0011.pdf
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National Monetary and Banking Policy: Questionnaire Relative to S. Res. 125 (Approved August 4, 1939)
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Includes list of topics to be explored by the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency in a comprehensive study (with hearings) of national monetary and banking policy. Topics are organized by federal agency.
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1939/08/04,
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1939, National Monetary and Banking Policy: Questionnaire Relative to S. Res. 125 (Approved August 4, 1939), from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/038_10_0009.pdf
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National Monetary and Banking Policy : Questionnaire Relative to S. Res. 125
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A questionnaire relative to S. Res. 125 (approved August 4, 1939) sent to the Treasury Department, Comptroller of the Currency, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Banks, Department of Commerce, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, State Bank Supervisors, and American Bankers Association and Association of Reserve City Bankers. Printed for the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, 76th Congress, 3rd session, as part of a study on possible national monetary and banking policy by which the monetary and banking authorities of the Federal Government shall be guided and governed, and recommendations on the character of governmental machinery best calculated to carry out such policy.
OCLC:
9191126
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), National Monetary and Banking Policy : Questionnaire Relative to S. Res. 125, [issue title/date], accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/congressional/1940sen_nmbpq.pdf
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Wartime Suspension of Certain Provisions of Federal Reserve Act: Hearing… on S. 700, a Bill to Amend Section 12b and Section 19 of the Federal Reserve Act during the Continuance of the War and for Six Months after Its Termination, February 17, 1943
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Includes statements by Eccles and Leo T. Crowley.
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1943/02/17,
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1943, Wartime Suspension of Certain Provisions of Federal Reserve Act: Hearing… on S. 700, a Bill to Amend Section 12b and Section 19 of the Federal Reserve Act during the Continuance of the War and for Six Months after Its Termination, February 17, 1943, from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/065_05_0002.pdf
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Amending Sections 16 and 18 of the Federal Reserve Act: Hearing… on S. 658, a Bill to Repeal the Sixth Paragraph of Section 18 of the Federal Reserve Act, and S. 1041, a Bill to Extend the Period During Which Direct Obligations…
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S. 1041: A bill to extend the period during which direct obligations of the United States may be used as collateral security for Federal Reserve Notes; includes Eccles' testimony.
Date:
1943/05/04,
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1943, Amending Sections 16 and 18 of the Federal Reserve Act: Hearing… on S. 658, a Bill to Repeal the Sixth Paragraph of Section 18 of the Federal Reserve Act, and S. 1041, a Bill to Extend the Period During Which Direct Obligations…, from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/065_06_0001.pdf
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Reduction in Reserve Ratio for Federal Reserve Notes and Deposits: Hearings… on S. 510, a Bill to Amend Sections 11 (c) and 16 of the Federal Reserve Act, as Amended, and for Other Purposes, February 20, 28, and March 7, 1945
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Transcript from hearing on S. 510 from February 20, 28, and March 7, 1945; includes testimony by Eccles and W. Randolph Burgess.
Date:
1945/02/20,
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1945, Reduction in Reserve Ratio for Federal Reserve Notes and Deposits: Hearings… on S. 510, a Bill to Amend Sections 11 (c) and 16 of the Federal Reserve Act, as Amended, and for Other Purposes, February 20, 28, and March 7, 1945, from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/065_10_0008.pdf
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Reduction in Reserve Ratio for Federal Reserve Notes and Deposits: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 510, a Bill to Amend Sections 11 (C) and 16 of the Federal Reserve Act, as Amended, and for Other Purposes
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Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session, on S. 510, a bill to amend sections 11 (c) and 16 of the Federal reserve act, as amended, and for other purposes. February 20, 28, and March 7, 1945. The bill had the following intentions:
(1) Extend indefinitely the authority of the Federal Reserve banks to pledge United States Government securities against Federal Reserve notes issued by the Federal Reserve agents. Existing authority was set to expire June 30, 1945.
(2) Reduce the requirements of reserves to be held by Federal Reserve banks in gold certificates against Federal Reserve notes in circulation and gold certificates or lawful money against deposits, to a uniform minimum in gold certificates against combined note and deposit liabilities.
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Y 4.B 22/3:F 31/26
OCLC:
10542202
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), Reduction in Reserve Ratio for Federal Reserve Notes and Deposits: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 510, a Bill to Amend Sections 11 (C) and 16 of the Federal Reserve Act, as Amended, and for Other Purposes, [issue title/date], accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/congressional/1945sen_reducresratio.pdf
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Increasing the Lending Authority of the Export-Import Bank of Washington: Report to Accompany H. R. 3771
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Report No. 490, to accompany H. R. 3771.
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1945/07/19,
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1945, Increasing the Lending Authority of the Export-Import Bank of Washington: Report to Accompany H. R. 3771, from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/038_11_0001.pdf
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1946 Extension of the Emergency Price Control and Stabilization Acts of 1942, as Amended: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2028, a Bill to Amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as Amended, and for Other Purposes
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V.1. Hearings, April 15-May 1, 1946.
V.2. Hearings May 2-10, 1946 [and] Appendix I and II.
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Y 4. B 22/3:P 93/4/v.1-2
OCLC:
9055923
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, ([year]), 1946 Extension of the Emergency Price Control and Stabilization Acts of 1942, as Amended: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2028, a Bill to Amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as Amended, and for Other Purposes, [issue title/date], accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=406
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- 1946 Extension of the Emergency Price Control and Stabilization Acts of 1942, as Amended: Hearings before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5270, a Bill to Amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as Amended, and the Stabilization act of 1942, as Amended, and for Other Purposes
- Public Law 548, 79th Congress, Chapter 671, 2d Session H.J. Res. 371 : Joint Resolution Extending the Effective Period of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as Amended, and the Stabilization Act of 1942, as Amended
Anglo-American Financial Agreement
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Statement of Marriner Eccles before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, followed by a question and answer session.
Date:
1946/03/08,
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Eccles, Marriner S. (Marriner Stoddard), 1890-1977 and United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1946, Anglo-American Financial Agreement, from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/036_08_0001.pdf
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Anglo-American Financial Agreement
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Transcript of committee hearing on the British Loan; Eccles testified in support of the loan.
Date:
1946/03/08,
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1946, Anglo-American Financial Agreement, from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/067_07_0002.pdf
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Implementation of the Financial Agreement Dated December 6, 1945, Between the United States and the United Kingdom: Report [To Accompany S. J. Res. 138]
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Report No. 1160, submitted by Senator Barkley of the Committee on Banking and Currency regarding SJ Res 138.
Date:
1946/04/10,
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1946, Implementation of the Financial Agreement Dated December 6, 1945, Between the United States and the United Kingdom: Report [To Accompany S. J. Res. 138], from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/067_07_0006.pdf
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Direct Purchases of Government Securities By Federal Reserve Banks: Report [to Accompany H.R. 2413]
Description:
Committee report No. 116; regarding HR 2413, a bill to amend the Federal Reserve Act.
Date:
1947/03/10,
Citation:
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency, 1947, Direct Purchases of Government Securities By Federal Reserve Banks: Report [to Accompany H.R. 2413], from The Marriner S. Eccles Document Collection, accessed May 19, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/eccles/067_11_0002.pdf
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