Statements and Speeches of Marriner S. Eccles

1934

• December 18, 1934 - Remarks at a meeting of the Federal Reserve Board (412.2K)
  With representatives of the Industrial Advisory Committees in Washington, D.C.

1935

• February 8, 1935 - Press conference replying to inquiries regarding chief purposes of the proposals for changes in banking laws, in so far as they relate to the Federal Reserve System (418.3K)

• February 12, 1935 - Monetary problems of recovery (1.3M)
  Before the annual midwinter meeting of the Ohio Bankers Association at Columbus, OH

March 4, 1935

• Summary of statements in reply to questions by members of the Committee on Banking and Currency of the House of Representatives at hearings on the Banking Bill of 1935 held March 4-20, 1935 (4.6M)
• Extract from Hearings... Statement (8.1M)

• April 15, 1935 - Statement of Governor Eccles (592.4K)

• May 10, 1935 - Statement on the Banking Bill of 1935 (S. 1715) (1.1M)
  Before a subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency of the United States Senate

May 25, 1935

In the National Radio Forum arranged by the Washington Star, broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company

• Radio Speech on the Banking Bill of 1935. (816.9K)
• Press Release of Speech (537.8K)

• June 4, 1935 - Consumer's stake in sound money [The] (281.6K)
  Radio speech for Station WJSV, Washington D.C., in the consumer's series arranged by the Consumer's Committee of the National Advisory Council on radio in education

• June 5, 1935 - Banking Bill of 1935 [The] (250.7K)
  Address before the Annual Convention of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association at Scranton, Pennsylvania

• July 3, 1935 - Statement of Governor Eccles on Title II of the Banking Act of 1935 as reported by the Banking And Currency Committee of the Senate. (519.8K)

• August 24, 1935 - Statement of Governor Eccles on the signing of the Banking Act of 1935 (70.5K)

• October 7, 1935 - A few notes concerning the address of Marriner S. Eccles of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at the meeting of the Robert Morris Associates on October 7, 1955 at French Lick, Indiana (247.3K)

• November 14, 1935 - Address (571.6K)
  Address before the American Bankers Association Convention in New Orleans, LA (Stenographic Transcript)

• November 22, 1935 - Press statement by Chairman Eccles on Inflation and Reserves (175.3K)

1936

• March 27, 1936 - Address to the Business and Professional Men's Group (748.1K)
  Under the auspices of the University of Cincinnati, OH

• May 8, 1936 - Theory and progress of the recovery program [The] (252.4K)
  Address at the Conference on Debt, Taxation, and Inflation. Seventh Annual Wharton Institute of the University of Pennsylvania.

• May 30, 1936 - Statement of Hon. Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System (White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; D. C. Bankers Association Convention; Reporter's copy) (555.0K)

• November 13, 1936 - Address (503.1K)
  Before the Seventh New England Bank Management Conference of the New England Council (Stenographic transcript)

1937

• March 15, 1937 - Statement of Chairman Eccles with reference to his position on credit and monetary policies (322.2K)
  For release in the morning papers.

• December 14, 1937 - Address (787.3K)
  Before the Annual Meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation at Chicago

1938

• January 4, 1938 - Transcript of testimony before the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Unemployment and Relief on Tuesday (1.4M)

• May 3, 1938 - Statement for the Press (492.9K)

• May 13, 1938 - Current Business and Economic Outlook [The] (498.8K)
  Address before the New Jersey Bankers Association Convention in Atlantic City

• December 1, 1938 - Address (373.5K)
  Before the New York Chapter American Institute of Banking in New York City.

• December 23, 1938 - Letter to Senator Byrd (216.2K)
  Letter sent to Senator Byrd of Virgina by Chairman Eccles in answer to the Senator's address in Boston of Dec. 10

1939

• January 23, 1939 - Radio Address (270.7K)
  Under the auspices of the National Radio Forum conducted by The Washington Evening Star broadcast over the National Broadcasting Company

• February 20, 1939 - What should be the government's objectives in fiscal and monetary policies : summary of an informal address given before the Economic Club of Detroit at the Book-Cadillac Hotel (529.1K)

• March 23, 1939 - Statement (109.9K)
  Before the Senate Special Silver Committee

• June 5, 1939 - Statement (561.3K)
  Before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency with reference to S. 2343

• June 16, 1939 - How are we to put idle men, money, and machines to work? (603.9K)
  Address before the Ninth Annual Special Meeting of the Harvard Business School Alumni

• July 19, 1939 - Statement (424.4K)
  Before the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency on S-2759

• September 13, 1939 - Statement to the Associated Press at Ogden, Utah (488.2K)

• November 9, 1939 - Address at the 25th Anniversary of the opening of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (437.0K)

1940

• May 9, 1940 - Unemployment - What Shall We Do About It? Address at the 133rd Annual Dinner of the Economic Club of New York at the Hotel Astor, New York City, Thursday Evening (934.0K)

• November 12-13, 1940 - Statement of Mr. Marriner Eccles at the Conference of Federal Reserve Officers, Service Procurement Officers, and Director of Small Business Activities, held at the Federal Reserve Building, Washington, D. C. (1.4M)

• November 28, 1940 - Address (510.9K)
  National Industrial Conference Board, New York City

• December 4, 1940 - Press statement in regards to the November 28, 1940 speech at the National Industrial Conference Board Meeting (469.0K)

1941

• March 24, 1941 - Letter to Wright Patman (482.5K)
  Letter to Wright Patman, House of Representatives, in response to a radio address printed in the Congressional Record of March 17, 1941

• May 1, 1941 - Financial problems of defense (307.2K)
  Address at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at Washington, D.C.

• May 7, 1941 - Statement before the Ways and Means Committee (321.1K)

• August 11, 1941 - Statement to the press with reference to the President's Executive Order relating to the regulation of consumer credit (545.7K)

• August 23, 1941 - Statement to the press on instalment credit regulation (563.5K)

• September 29, 1941 - Statement (187.2K)
  Presented before the Banking and Currency Committee of the House with reference to the Price Control Bill

• October 14, 1941 - Address (504.8K)
  Before the luncheon meeting of the National Tax Association at the University of Minnesota

• November 25, 1941 - Address at meeting of National Industrial Conference Board (333.1K)
  New York City

1942

• January 13, 1942 - Address (810.6K)
  Before the Annual Conference of Mayors, Washington, D.C.

• January 26, 1942 - Self-Insurance: Statement to be made by Chairman Eccles at Chairmen's Conference (530.1K)

• February 12, 1942 - Address (227.3K)
  Before America's Town Meeting of the Air, Station WJZ and the Blue Network

• May 25, 1942 - Safeguarding our economy (227.3K)
  Address before the District of Columbia Bankers Association at Washington, D.C.

• June 24, 1942 - Address on the President's seven point program to fight rising living costs (259.0K)
  Delivered over the Mutual Broadcasting System, Station Wol, Washington, D.C.

• October 19, 1942 - Remarks of M.S. Eccles before the Investment Bankers Association, New York (540.0K)

• October 28, 1942 - Luncheon Talk Before the Texas Congressional Delegation on "Inflation" (611.1K)

1943

• February 17, 1943 - Statement before the Banking and Currency Committee of the Senate on S. 700, a bill to amend sections 12B and 19 of the Federal Reserve Act [Press Statement] (521.0K)

• March 11, 1943 - The war program and inflation (898.4K)
  Address before the Central States Group Investment Bankers Association of America, Chicago

• April 14, 1943 - Radio address (427.1K)
  On the National Radio Forum, conducted by the Washington Evening Star, broadcast over the Blue Network

• September 17, 1943 - The dual system of banking (808.1K)
  Address before the National Association of Supervisors of State Banks in Cincinnati

• October 29, 1943 - Inflation dangers and the budgetary situation: summary of statement before the House Ways and Means Committee (577.2K)

• November 8, 1943 - Statement at the meeting of the Chairmen of the Federal Reserve Banks on the research work of the System (688.8K)

1944

• February 8, 1944 - Possibilities of postwar inflation and suggested tax action (288.1K)
  Address at the Tax Institute Symposium in New York City

• March 24, 1944 - Statement before the Banking and Currency Committee of the Senate, on S.1764, to amend the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 (629.9K)

• April 19, 1944 - Statement before the Banking and Currency Committee of the House, on extension of the Emergency Control Act of 1942 (644.2K)
  Eccles' statement before the House Banking and Currency Committee on April 19, 1944; the same statement presented to Senate Banking and Currency Committee on March 24, 1944.

• April 24, 1944 - Statement on the Proposal of the Technical Experts Representing Thirty-Four Nations for and International Stabilization Fund (480.4K)

• November 16, 1944 - The post-war price problem - inflation or deflation (774.0K)
  Address at Meeting of National Industrial Conference Board, New York City

1945

• February 8, 1945 - Stabilization of Capital Values: Statement before the Vinson Committee at the Request of Judge Vinson (702.4K)

• February 20, 1945 - Reduction in Reserve Ratio and Renewal of Authority to Pledge United States Government Obligations as Collateral for Federal Reserve Notes: Statement before Senate Banking and Currency Committee (664.8K)

• March 2, 1945 - Statement on a capital gains tax to curb rising prices of capital values (304.4K)
  Statement for the press

• June 1, 1945 - Statement by Chairman Eccles before the Select Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives (797.3K)

• June 15, 1945 - Statement before the Banking and Currency Committee of the House of Representatives, on extension of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 (557.2K)

• June 23, 1945 - Statement for the Press: Letter to Robert F. Wagner, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, concerning the Full Employment Bill, S. 380 (679.7K)

• June 28, 1945 - Federal Reserve Policy with Respect to the Proposed International Monetary Fund and Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1.1M)

• September 14, 1945 - Statement for the Press (483.2K)

• December 6, 1945 - Statement for the Press: Statement by Chairman Eccles on the British Loan (475.1K)

1946

• January 17, 1946 - Statement for the press (521.7K)

• February 9, 1946 - Address on the British loan (503.5K)
  At a luncheon of the Foreign Policy Association, Philadelphia

• February 25, 1946 - Statement before the Banking and Currency Committee of the House of Representatives, on Extension of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 [Press Statement] (601.5K)

• March 8, 1946 - Statement before the Banking and Currency Committee of the Senate, on the Financial Agreement between the United States and Great Britain [Press Statement] (680.1K)

• March 25, 1946 - Statement by Chairman Eccles (649.2K)

• May 1, 1946 - Speech Delivered before the League of Women Voters, Kansas City (3.1M)

• May 8, 1946 - Statement on the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 (132.0K)
  Before the Banking and Currency Committee

• May 22, 1946 - Statement before the Banking and Currency Committee of the House of Representatives, on the Financial Agreement between the United States and Great Britain [Press Statement] (703.0K)

• October 7, 1946 - Memorandum on economic outlook (493.7K)
  National Outlook Conference, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

• October 25, 1946 - Address (784.1K)
  Before the 16th New England Bank Management Conference of the New England Council, Boston

1947

• January 17, 1947 - Statement for the press (534.1K)

• March 4, 1947 - Statement in answer to questions regarding methods of restricting monetization of public debt by banks (633.0K)

• March 24, 1947 - Memorandum of Chairman Eccles on H.R. 2413, Statement before Senate Banking and Currency Committee (602.2K)

• May 26, 1947 - Statement of Chairman Eccles Before Senate Banking and Currency Committee on S. 829 [Press Release] (633.6K)

• June 3, 1947 - Statement of Chairman Eccles Before House Banking and Currency Committee on H.R. 3268 [Press Release] (554.1K)

• June 10, 1947 - Statement of Chairman Eccles before House Banking and Currency Committee on Regulation of Consumer Installment Credit (700.3K)

• June 10, 1947 - Statement of Chairman Eccles in Reply to Criticism by Mr. Muir and Mr. Cravens on H.R. 3268 Before the Banking and Currency Committee of the House [Press Release] (551.9K)

• June 11, 1947 - Statement of Chairman Eccles in Reply to Criticism of S. 829 by Representatives of the Morris Plan Before the Banking and Currency Committee of the Senate [Press Release] (558.5K)

• June 25, 1947 - Statement of Chairman Eccles Before Senate Banking and Currency Committee on Regulation of Consumer Instalment Credit [Press Release] (592.5K)

• July 16, 1947 - Statement of Chairman Eccles Before House Banking and Currency Committee on H.R. 3351 [Press Release] (661.5K)

• August 14, 1947 - Postwar Foreign Lending Program of the United States: Speech before Foreign Affairs Group of University of Utah (620.6K)

• September 25, 1947 - Postwar bank credit problems (531.3K)
  Address before the National Association of Supervisors of State Banks, Washington, D.C.

• October 1, 1947 - Statement for the press releasing letter to Mr. Frank A. Hecht, President of the Navy League of the United States, regarding the bearing of expenditures for national defense upon the inflationary situation (520.2K)

• November 25, 1947 - The current inflation problem-- causes and controls (710.2K)
  Statement before the Joint Committee on the Economic Report

• December 8, 1947 - Proposal for a special reserve requirement against the demand and time deposits of banks (1.6M)
  Statement filed with Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives

• December 10, 1947 - Statement (660.5K)
  Before the Joint Committee on the Economic Report.

• December 10, 1947 - Statement by Chairman Eccles as a result of conference with Secretary Synder (110.2K)

1948

• April 13, 1948 - Statement (549.0K)
  On behalf of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System before the Joint Committee on the Economic Report

• June 29, 1948 - Speech Before Utah Bankers Association, Salt Lake City, Utah (3.5M)

• July 29 and 30, 1948 - Means of Combating Inflation: Statement before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, on S. J. Res. 157 (1.6M)

• August 3, 1948 - Means of Combating Inflation: Statement before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, on S. J. Res. 157 (1.4M)

• September 17, 1948 - Address of Marriner S. Eccles Before the Executives' Club of Chicago, Hotel Sherman, Chicago, Illinois (2.5M)

• October 27, 1948 - Address (864.0K)
  Before the Iowa Bankers Association Convention in Des Moines, Iowa

• December 1, 1948 - Statement for the Press (468.7K)

1949

• April 8, 1949 - Today's challenge to democratic capitalism (706.6K)
  Address at the luncheon of the Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco

• July 5, 1949 - Statement for the press (1.8M)

• November 22, 1949 - Statement (759.5K)
  Before the Subcommittee on Monetary, Credit, and Fiscal Policies of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report

1950

• March 15, 1950 - Effect of housing finance on Federal Reserve policies: statement prepared at request of Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas and also placed in the Congressional Record on March 15, 1950. (511.8K)

• April 14, 1950 - Long-Range Economic Problem of Democratic Capitalism: An Address before the Social Science Section of the Ohio College Association at Columbus, Ohio (2.6M)

• July 18, 1950 - Statement issued at Salt Lake City (172.3K)
  Regarding an inflationary situation alongside the Korean crisis

• October 12, 1950 - Address at the Banquet of the 17th Biennial Congress of the Cooperative League of the U.S. (188.3K)
  Chicago, Illinois

1951

• January 25, 1951 - Statement (140.0K)
  Before the Joint Committee on the Economic Report

• March 2, 1951 - Address (318.6K)
  At the luncheon of the Executive Club of Chicago, Illinois

• April 27, 1951 - Statement (544.2K)
  Before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, considering legislation to abolish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

• June 4, 1951 - Commencement Address (630.0K)
  At the 58th Commencement of the Utah State Agricultural College, Logan, UT

• July 27, 1951 - The Way to Peace and Prosperity: Address at Luncheon of the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco, California (708.0K)