Statements and Speeches of Chester C. Davis

1937

• June 25, 1937 - Public opinion and the credit system : speech at [the] Montana Bankers' Association, Glacier National Park, Montana (528.4K)

1938

• June 8, 1938 - At the crossroads : address at [the] annual meeting of the Iowa Bankers' Association, Des Moines, Iowa (354.3K)

• June 17, 1938 - Speech at the ceremonies in connection with the opening of the new Federal Reserve Bank Building, Helena, Montana (205.3K)

• June 25, 1938 - Some banking problems and trends : address before the Minnesota Bankers' Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota (307.6K)

• December 14, 1938 - Credit and currency management and price level : address before the twentieth annual meeting of The American Farm Bureau Federation, New Orleans, Louisiana (349.8K)

• December 15, 1938 - An advancing south : address before the Mid-South Farm Forum for 1938, in connection with the Plant-To-Prosper Contest, Memphis, Tennessee (228.9K)

1939

• February 17, 1939 - Agricultural prices and price relationships : opening address [at the] Agricultural * Industry * Labor, third annual National Farm Institute, Des Monies, Iowa, February 17-18, 1939 (443.9K)

• August 9, 1939 - The relation of monetary policies to price levels of basic commodities : address before the Fifteenth Annual Session of the American Institute of Cooperation at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (698.3K)

1941

• April 7, 1941 - American in a world at war : address at the Army Day Celebration, under the auspices of the St. Louis Chapter, Military Order of the World War, and the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, at the Coronado Hotel, St. Louis, MO (375.0K)

• April 15, 1941 - The Midwest and national defense : address before the Annual Meeting of the St. Paul Association of Commerce, St. Paul, Minnesota (375.6K)

• April 25, 1941 - Consumer credit and national defense (1.1M)
  Address before the Consumer Credit Conference, American Bankers Association, St. Louis, Missouri

• May 14, 1941 - National defense (932.2K)
  Address before the 50th Annual Convention of the Missouri Bankers Association, Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Similar speech given May 15, 1941 for the Arkansas Bankers Association.

• May 15, 1941 - National defense (937.8K)
  Address before the 51st annual convention of the Arkansas Bankers Association, Hot Springs, Arkansas. Similar speech delivered May 14, 1941 before the Missouri Bankers Association.

• June 9, 1941 - America in a world at war (1.1M)
  Commencement address given at Grinnell College, Iowa

• September 9, 1941 - Address (789.5K)
  Delivered to the 3rd Tennessee Bankers Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• October 3, 1941 - Business under existing emergency conditions (878.2K)
  Address delivered to the Meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Sales Managers Bureau, St. Louis, Missouri

• October 15, 1941 - A banker looks at agriculture (1.0M)
  Address given before the Agricultural Publishers Association, Chicago, Illinois

• October 21, 1941 - About banks and war (926.1K)
  Address given before the 49th Annual Convention, Kentucky Bankers Association, Louisville, Kentucky

• October 30, 1941 - Avoiding the financial pitfalls of the defense era (1.0M)
  Address given at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

• November 11, 1941 - The challenge to democracy (925.6K)
  Address before the annual meeting of the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation, Hannibal, Missouri

• December 10, 1941 - Democracy in crisis (669.3K)
  Address at the luncheon of the Scottish Rite Club of St. Louis, Missouri

1942

• February 4, 1942 - The economic outlook as it affects the Illinois farmer (1.1M)
  Address held Wednesday afternoon for the Farm and Home Week program, University of Illinois at Urbana.

• February 11, 1942 - Banking's part in the national financial structure (1.2M)
  Address at Forum Meeting of the St. Louis Chapter, Inc. American Institute of Banking, St. Louis, Missouri

• May 6, 1942 - An examination of values (1.1M)
  Address before the 52nd Annual Convention of the Arkansas Bankers Association, Hot Springs, Arkansas

• May 15, 1942 - War and the nation's financial structure (1.1M)
  Address before the 55th Annual Convention of the Kansas Bankers Association, Topeka, Kansas

• May 19, 1942 - Banks and the war (1.1M)
  Address before the 52nd Annual Convention of the Tennessee Bankers Association, Knoxville, Tennessee

• May 21, 1942 - Looking beyond 1942 (1.0M)
  Address before the 52nd Annual Convention of the Illinois Bankers Association, St. Louis, Missouri

• November 14, 1942 - The war, the press, and public debt (1.0M)
  Address before the 76th Annual Convention of the Missouri Press Association, St. Louis, Missouri

• November 20, 1942 - After the war (817.3K)
  Address before the Annual Meeting of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, St. Louis, Missouri

1943

• March 26, 1943 - Radio address: Station KSD (650.5K)
  Radio address & farewell message delivered for station KSD from 10:20-10:30 P.M. CST, St. Louis, Missouri, before departing for Washington D.C. to temporarily serve as Administrator of Food Production and Distribution

• November 22, 1943 - Values (1.0M)
  Address before the 9th Annual Convention of the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation

• December 7, 1943 - Outlook and aftermath (1.0M)
  Address before the 25th Annual Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, Chicago, Illinois

1944

• January 6, 1944 - A practical approach to post-war planning (966.7K)
  Address before the Missouri Bankers University War Conference, University of Missouri, Columbia

• January 20, 1944 - Tomorrow (968.0K)
  Address before the Annual Banquet of the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce, Little Rock, Arkansas

• January 28, 1944 - Friends of the land (1.0M)
  Address before the Memphis Chapter of the Friends of the Land, Memphis Tennessee

• March 29, 1944 - Postwar planning and chemurgy (854.4K)
  Address before the 10th Annual Chemurgic Conference of the National Farm Chemurgic Council, St. Louis, Missouri

• April 14, 1944 - Post war agriculture and livestock policies (858.3K)
  Address delivered at the Livestock Feeders' Day, University of Missouri, Columbia.

• September 25, 1944 - Looking ahead with agriculture (1.2M)
  Address before the Country Bank Session of the American Bankers Association Convention, Chicago, Illinois

1945

• January 11, 1945 - The agricultural outlook (1.0M)
  Address before the Bankers' Group St. Louis Credit Men's Association, St. Louis, Missouri

• January 25, 1945 - Why banks should be interested in improved agriculture (938.9K)
  Address before the Missouri Bankers-University Conference, University of Missouri, Columbia

• January 29, 1945 - Postwar agriculture (1.0M)
  Address before the 6th Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Council of Arkansas, Memphis, Tennessee

• February 9, 1945 - Looking ahead with agriculture (1.1M)
  Address before the Commercial Club of Chicago, Illinois

• February 19, 1945 - Agriculture in a developing economy (768.8K)
  Talk given before Town Hall Workshop, New York City

• February 20, 1945 - The city and the land (873.9K)
  Address before the Conservation Forum sponsored by the Pennsylvania Chapter of Friends of The Land, Philadelphia.

• March 21, 1945 - Postwar problems facing agriculture (1.0M)
  Address before the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Luncheon Meeting, Kansas City, Missouri

• October 18, 1945 - Friends of the land (757.6K)
  Address before the Annual Friends of the Land, St. Louis, Missouri

• October 24, 1945 - Financing the job ahead (961.1K)
  Address before the 46th Annual Convention of the National Retail Farm Equipment Association, St. Louis, Missouri

• October 30, 1945 - Looking ahead with agriculture (749.6K)
  Address before the "Balanced Farm Dinner" held in St. Joseph, Missouri

• December 19, 1945 - The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in war and peace (839.6K)

1946

• May 2, 1946 - Looking ahead with agriculture (896.8K)
  Address before the Agricultural Luncheon of the Illinois Bankers Association, St. Louis, Missouri

• May 4, 1946 - Food crisis (743.6K)
  Address before the Women Broadcasters, Institute for Education by Radio, Columbus, Ohio

• August 26, 1946 - Food for the world (889.1K)
  Address before the American Institute of Cooperation, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana

• October 17, 1946 - World food and conservation (842.6K)
  Address before the Friends of the Land Annual Meeting, Omaha, Nebraska

• November 20, 1946 - Teamwork of trouble (940.1K)
  Address before the 25th Anniversary Meeting Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation, Nashville, Tennessee

• December 5, 1946 - Interrelationship of agriculture and industry, and their future (1.0M)
  Address before the Annual Midwest Farm, Home, and Industrial Conference, Topeka, Kansas

1947

• January 16, 1947 - Land use and conservation (1.5M)
  Address before the Graduate School Seminar, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

• January 31, 1947 - The balance sheet of balanced farming (1.1M)
  Address before the Statewide Meeting of the Missouri State Chamber of Commerce, Jefferson City, Missouri

• March 20, 1947 - Agriculture in the national economy (1.1M)
  Address before the Banquet Meeting, Agricultural Clinic of the Indiana Bankers Association, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana

• April 25, 1947 - Partners of town and country (805.0K)
  Address before the Paris Rotary Club, Paris, Tennessee

• May 13, 1947 - Banking and agriculture in Mississippi (1.2M)
  Address before the Mississippi Bankers Association Convention, Biloxi, Mississippi

• June 7, 1947 - A long-range program for agriculture (1.3M)
  Testimony before the Agricultural Committee, U.S. House of Reprsentatives

• September 15, 1947 - Financing soil conservation and improvement (1.1M)

• October 1, 1947 - The country bank and agriculture (1.4M)
  Address before the American Bankers Association Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey

1948

• October 28, 1948 - Economic opportunities in proper land use (1.3M)
  Address before the Illinois Forestry Congress sponsored by the Illinois Technical Forestry Association, University of Illinois, Urbana

• November 19, 1948 - The banker and the farmer (1.1M)
  Address before the Illinois Bankers Conference, University of Illinois

1949

• August 24, 1949 - Agricultural prices; their effect on Arkansas (1.0M)
  Address before the 6th Arkansas Bankers Seminar Federal Reserve Dinner Meeting, Fayetteville, Arkansas

• September 6, 1949 - A challenge to study (1.0M)
  Address before the Tax Section and the Section of Corporation, Banking and Mercantile Law of the American Bar Association, St. Louis, Missouri

• September 8, 1949 - Our agricultural polices (865.2K)
  Address before the 9th Annual Meeting, Friends of the Land, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• October 31, 1949 - Banks- and central banks (1.0M)
  Address before the National Bank Division of the American Bankers Association, San Francisco, California

1950

• January 18, 1950 - We have what it takes (1.0M)
  Address before the Mississippi Cattlemen's Association, Jackson, Mississippi

• February 17, 1950 - What we have learned in 15 years of farm programs (1.1M)
  Address before the 12th Annual National Farm Institute, Des Moines, Iowa

• November 16, 1950 - Function of monetary controls [The] (1.0M)
  Address before the 317th Meeting of the National Industrial Conference Board, Chicago, Illinois