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December 15, 1955
Internal Memorandum
Conversation -with Dr» Karl Bopp and Dr. Lester Chandler in Philadelphia

In 1930, when the Board was committed to a policy of liquidation
and not putting more money into the market, the New York Bank vas convinced
that there should be more money put into the market. Bopp told a stoiy of
Harrison going down to a meeting of the Open Market Committee in Washington
and trying, with tears in his eyes, to persuade them that they must put more
money into the market* Finally, when they refused, he said that if they
would not do it, New York would do it alone, and some enoxroous amount of
governments was bought by New York but not through the Open Market Committee,
It certainly -£«• possible to verify this in records*
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