War Finance

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War Finance Corporation Act - signed into effect on April 5, 1918, which authorized the Capital Issues Committee (CIC) to review submissions for new securities issues. The committee was made up of seven members - three of which were Federal Reserve Board members and it functioned to determine if securities issues were compatible with the national interest. Over about eight months, the CIC reviewed over 2,000 applications for new securities offerings valued at over $3.7billion and was suspended with the completion of the war. The CIC was the precursor to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Liberty Loans – Liberty Loans were issued in four stages by the United States during World War I, with a fifth being issued after the war called a Victory Liberty Loan. With administration of the loans handled by the Federal Reserve, around 20 million individuals bought Liberty Loans during the War and the money borrowed through the loans was over $18 billion.

Other war finance activities.

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Addresses at a Luncheon Given by the Subcommittee on Capital Issues

Addresses at a Luncheon Given by the Subcommittee on Capital Issues


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Addresses delivered by James H. Beal, Mr. D.C. Wills, and Dr. J.T. Holdsworth at a luncheon given by the Subcommittee on Capital Issues, William Penn Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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742050982

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United States. Capital Issues Committee, ([year]), Addresses at a Luncheon Given by the Subcommittee on Capital Issues, [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=140

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Date: 1918
Authors: United States. Capital Issues Committee

Capital Issues Committee of the Federal Reserve Board

Capital Issues Committee of the Federal Reserve Board


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An address by Frederic H. Curtiss, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Issues, before the City Treasures and Collectors Association of Massachusetts at Boston, March 23, 1918

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81187114

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Curtiss, Frederic Haines, 1869- and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, ([year]), Capital Issues Committee of the Federal Reserve Board, [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=138

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Date: 1918
Authors: Curtiss, Frederic Haines, 1869-, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Capital Issues Committee: Rules and Regulations

Capital Issues Committee: Rules and Regulations


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The Law and Circular No. One of the Capital Issues Committee, created by the War Finance Corporation Act.

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18890671

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Guaranty Trust Company of New York and United States. Capital Issues Committee, ([year]), Capital Issues Committee: Rules and Regulations, [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=139

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Date: 1918
Authors: Guaranty Trust Company of New York, United States. Capital Issues Committee

Capital Issues and Municipal Debts and Their Relation to War Financing

Capital Issues and Municipal Debts and Their Relation to War Financing


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Read at the National Conference on War Economy, June 6, 1918, and published in Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Vol. VIII, Number I, July 1918.

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480402874

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Warburg, Paul M., ([year]), Capital Issues and Municipal Debts and Their Relation to War Financing, [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=137

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Date: 1918
Authors: Warburg, Paul M.

Circular No. 1 of the War Finance Corporation

Circular No. 1 of the War Finance Corporation


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Information for prospective applicants for advances under Section 21 of the War Finance Corporation Act

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180779832

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United States. War Finance Corporation, ([year]), Circular No. 1 of the War Finance Corporation, [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=141

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Date: 1921
Authors: United States. War Finance Corporation

Defense Production Act; Regulation W - Automotive: Hearings before the Joint Committee on Defense Production, Congress of the United States, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, on the Effect of Regulation W on Automotive Sales and Financing, December 6, 7, 8, and 11, 1950

Defense Production Act; Regulation W - Automotive: Hearings before the Joint Committee on Defense Production, Congress of the United States, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, on the Effect of Regulation W on Automotive Sales and Financing, December 6, 7, 8, and 11, 1950


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Hearings before the Joint Committee on Defense Production. 81st Congress of the United States. The effect of Regulation W on automotive sales and financing.

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21727345

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United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Defense Production, ([year]), Defense Production Act; Regulation W - Automotive: Hearings before the Joint Committee on Defense Production, Congress of the United States, Eighty-first Congress, Second Session, on the Effect of Regulation W on Automotive Sales and Financing, December 6, 7, 8, and 11, 1950, [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=819

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Date: 1950
Authors: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Defense Production

Federal Reserve District No. 8: Liberty Loan Organization

Federal Reserve District No. 8: Liberty Loan Organization


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([year]), Federal Reserve District No. 8: Liberty Loan Organization, [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=843

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Date: 1917

Final Report on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Final Report on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation


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This final report on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation provides an outline of the various programs which the RFC undertook and a summary of the projects undertaken by those authorities. From the foreword, "... there has been incorporated in the report a considerable volume of statistical material on RFC lending and investment functions..."

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T 1.2:R 24/5

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742457

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United States. Dept. of the Treasury, ([year]), Final Report on the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=134

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Date: 1959
Authors: United States. Dept. of the Treasury

Inter-Ally Debts

Inter-Ally Debts


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Information about the cost of the World War (World War I) and the debts between allies.

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1691536

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Fisk, Harvey Edward, ([year]), Inter-Ally Debts, [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=238

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Date: 1924
Authors: Fisk, Harvey Edward

Payment of Adjusted-Compensation Certificates. Hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of representatives, Seventy-second Congress, first session, on House bills numbered 1, 27, 94, 4493, 4535, 4539, 5461, 6180, 6584, 6693, 7726, 8016, 9593, 9694, 9929, 10096, 10367, 11117, 11300, 11674.

Payment of Adjusted-Compensation Certificates. Hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of representatives, Seventy-second Congress, first session, on House bills numbered 1, 27, 94, 4493, 4535, 4539, 5461, 6180, 6584, 6693, 7726, 8016, 9593, 9694, 9929, 10096, 10367, 11117, 11300, 11674.


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Hearings of April 11 to 29, and May 2 and 3, 1932 on the subject of payment of certificates issued as additional pay to veterans of World War I. These hearings were also issued also before revision in separate parts numbered 1 to 14.

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Y 4.W 36:C 73/18

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6246017

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, ([year]), Payment of Adjusted-Compensation Certificates. Hearings before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of representatives, Seventy-second Congress, first session, on House bills numbered 1, 27, 94, 4493, 4535, 4539, 5461, 6180, 6584, 6693, 7726, 8016, 9593, 9694, 9929, 10096, 10367, 11117, 11300, 11674., [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=390

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Date: 1932
Authors: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means

Plan Book: Suggestions for the Organization and Operation of Liberty Loan Committees

Plan Book: Suggestions for the Organization and Operation of Liberty Loan Committees


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50845336

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Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Liberty Loan Committee, ([year]), Plan Book: Suggestions for the Organization and Operation of Liberty Loan Committees, [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=842

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Date: 1917
Authors: Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Liberty Loan Committee

Postwar Economic Problems

Postwar Economic Problems


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Published in 1943, before the close of World War II, this compilation of articles considers economic issues and policies to effect a successful transition to a strong peacetime economy, based on studies of reconstruction periods following earlier wars.

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730387

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Harris, Seymour E., ([year]), Postwar Economic Problems, [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=853

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Date: 1943
Authors: Harris, Seymour E.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act

Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act


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01/27/1932,

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Martin, William McChesney, Jr., 1932, Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, from William McChesney Martin Jr. Document Collection, accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/martin/09_01_19320127.pdf

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Date: 1932
Authors: Martin, William McChesney, Jr.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act as Amended and Provisions of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 Pertaining to Reconstruction Finance Corporation. July 21, 1932.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act as Amended and Provisions of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 Pertaining to Reconstruction Finance Corporation. July 21, 1932.


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The 1959 final report is also available.

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Y 3.R 24:2 Ac 8

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43846999

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United States. Congress, ([year]), Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act as Amended and Provisions of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 Pertaining to Reconstruction Finance Corporation. July 21, 1932., [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=752

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Date: 1932
Authors: United States. Congress

Report of the National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee for the First and Second Liberty Loan Campaigns 1917

Report of the National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee for the First and Second Liberty Loan Campaigns 1917


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T 1.27/12:R 29/1

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25663607

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National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, ([year]), Report of the National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee for the First and Second Liberty Loan Campaigns 1917, [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=841

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Date: 1918
Authors: National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee

Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the War Finance Corporation (in Liquidation)

Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the War Finance Corporation (in Liquidation)


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Report regarding the War Finance Corporation in liquidation for the year ended November 30, 1929

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Y 3.W 19/3:1/

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67878017

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United States. Dept. of the Treasury, ([year]), Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the War Finance Corporation (in Liquidation), [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=142

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Date: 1930
Authors: United States. Dept. of the Treasury

Role of Keynesians in wartime policy and postwar planning

Role of Keynesians in wartime policy and postwar planning


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1972, American Economic Association. Republished with permission

Volume:
62

ISSN:
0002-8282

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Jones, Byrd L., 1972, Role of Keynesians in wartime policy and postwar planning, from Meltzer, A History of the Federal Reserve Volume 1, 1913-1951, accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/meltzer/record.php?id=4267

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Date: 1972
Authors: Jones, Byrd L.

Selling the First Installment of the Liberty Loan: In the Seventh Federal Reserve District, May 4th to June 15, 1917

Selling the First Installment of the Liberty Loan: In the Seventh Federal Reserve District, May 4th to June 15, 1917


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318654864

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Clifford, Edward, ([year]), Selling the First Installment of the Liberty Loan: In the Seventh Federal Reserve District, May 4th to June 15, 1917, [issue title/date], accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http:fraser.stlouisfed.org/publication/?pid=840

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Date: 1917
Authors: Clifford, Edward

Statements and Speeches of Adolph C. Miller: January 1918 - War Finance and Inflation

Statements and Speeches of Adolph C. Miller: January 1918 - War Finance and Inflation


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Statements and Speeches of Adolph C. Miller

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Reprinted from the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) and Miller, Adolph C., ([year]), Statements and Speeches of Adolph C. Miller: January 1918, accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/federal reserve history/bog_members_statements/Miller_191801.pdf

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Date: 1918
Authors: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), Miller, Adolph C.

Statements and Speeches of Adolph C. Miller: June 21, 1916 - War finance and the Federal Reserve Banks

Statements and Speeches of Adolph C. Miller: June 21, 1916 - War finance and the Federal Reserve Banks


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Statements and Speeches of Adolph C. Miller

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Reprinted from Papers Presented at a Joint Conference of the Western Economic Society and the City Club of Chicago, June 21 and 22, 1917.

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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) and Miller, Adolph C., ([year]), Statements and Speeches of Adolph C. Miller: June 21, 1916, accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/federal reserve history/bog_members_statements/Miller_19170621.pdf

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Date: 1916
Authors: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), Miller, Adolph C.

Statements and Speeches of Chester C. Davis: May 15, 1942 - War and the nation's financial structure

Statements and Speeches of Chester C. Davis: May 15, 1942 - War and the nation's financial structure


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Statements and Speeches of Chester C. Davis

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Address before the 55th Annual Convention of the Kansas Bankers Association, Topeka, Kansas

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Davis, Chester C. and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, ([year]), Statements and Speeches of Chester C. Davis: May 15, 1942, accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/frbsl_history/presidents/davis/davis_19420515.pdf

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Date: 1942
Authors: Davis, Chester C., Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Statements and Speeches of Chester C. Davis: May 19, 1942 - Banks and the war

Statements and Speeches of Chester C. Davis: May 19, 1942 - Banks and the war


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Statements and Speeches of Chester C. Davis

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Address before the 52nd Annual Convention of the Tennessee Bankers Association, Knoxville, Tennessee

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Davis, Chester C. and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, ([year]), Statements and Speeches of Chester C. Davis: May 19, 1942, accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/frbsl_history/presidents/davis/davis_19420519.pdf

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Date: 1942
Authors: Davis, Chester C., Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Statements and Speeches of Chester C. Davis: October 21, 1941 - About banks and war

Statements and Speeches of Chester C. Davis: October 21, 1941 - About banks and war


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Statements and Speeches of Chester C. Davis

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Address given before the 49th Annual Convention, Kentucky Bankers Association, Louisville, Kentucky

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Davis, Chester C. and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, ([year]), Statements and Speeches of Chester C. Davis: October 21, 1941, accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/frbsl_history/presidents/davis/davis_19411021.pdf

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Date: 1941
Authors: Davis, Chester C., Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Statements and Speeches of Paul M. Warburg: December 6, 1918 - Some phases of financial reconstruction

Statements and Speeches of Paul M. Warburg: December 6, 1918 - Some phases of financial reconstruction


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Statements and Speeches of Paul M. Warburg

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Address delivered at Atlantic City, N.J., on December 6, 1918, before the War Emergency and Reconstruction Congress of War Service Committees of American Industries, under auspices of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America.

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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.) and Warburg, Paul M., ([year]), Statements and Speeches of Paul M. Warburg: December 6, 1918, accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/federal reserve history/bog_members_statements/Warburg_19181206.pdf

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Date: 1918
Authors: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), Warburg, Paul M.

War Finance Corporation

War Finance Corporation


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01/11/1956,

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Committee on the History of the Federal Reserve System, 1956, War Finance Corporation, from Brookings Institution: Papers from the Committee on the History of the Federal Reserve, accessed May 18, 2013 from FRASER, http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/docs/historical/brookings/16807_04_0024.pdf

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Date: 1956
Authors: Committee on the History of the Federal Reserve System