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1325 west Albion Ave, Chicago, Illinois February seven 1940 DAILVNEWS BUILDING 4OO WCST MADISON STREET CHICAGO Dear Mr* Eccles: I was pleased to read of your reappointment as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and beg to extend my sincere congratulations on your splendid record. Following the A. B. A. convention at Seattle I made an extensive tour through the western states calling on many banks and attending some lodge meetings of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, of which I have been a member for nearly fifty four years* Recently I attended the mid-winter meeting of the Illinois Bankers Association also Reserve City Association conference and Monday next, I plan to attend, with Howard M. Sims, Manager of the Chicago Clearing House, the mid-winter meeting of the Ohio bankers at Columbus, then on to Washington and shall ho|)e to have the pleasure of seeing you again and other of my acquaintances on the board* ?:ith /kindest regards HonĀ« Warriner S* Eccles, Chairman, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, V.C.