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TH E GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON. D. C. 6 P R E S ID E N T 'S R O O M 2 December 1943 The Honorable Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Constitution Avenue between Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets, N.W. Washington, D.C. My dear Mr, Eccles: I went to extend to you a very cordial invitation to address a meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of the Distriot of Columbia, at a date in February to be fixed at your convenience. Mr. Albert W. Atwood who is a member of our Com mittee on Programs conferred with Mr. Eliot Thurston of your staff with regard to arranging this appoint ment, and was advised that you would appreciate re ceiving a letter in regard to the matter from the President of our Association. The subject which we would like to suggest to you for this occasion would be one covering some aspect of the financial, monetary, and economic problems that will have to be dealt with in the post-war period. Your address would be one of a series which we are planning. The first address will be given by Senator Claude D. Pepper, on December ninth, and will be on the topic "The Basis for an Enduring World Peace". I shall be very happy if you will give our invita tion favorable consideration. Cloyd^H. Mai^in Cloyd/ Pr^ldent of the Phi Pr^ii Beta Ketppa Association of the District of Columbia December 13, 1943* Dr. Cloyd U. Marvin, President of the Phi beta Kappa Association of the District of-Columbia, The George Washington University, Washington 6, D. C. My dear Dr. Marvin: This is to thank you for your letter of December 2 inviting me to address a meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa association of the District of Columbia sometime in February. If it is agreeaole to you to set a time late in..February,. I shall arrange to be on hand, bar ring some now unforeseen contingency of these times, and to discuss the general subject you suggest of postwar fiscal, monetary and related economic problems. 1 would prefer to speak informally without undertaking to prepare a text that would necessitate official clearance. Let me add that your courtesy in asking me to appear before this distinguished group is very much appre ciated. Sincerely yours, M. S. Eccles, Chairman. ET:b TH E GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON, D. C. 6 10 January 1944 The Honorable Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Constitution Avenue between Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets, N. V. Washington* P. C. My dear Mr. Icclest Your letter to President Marvin with reference to the address which we want you to make before the Phi Beta Kappa Association was transmitted to me as Chairman of the Program Committee. We are happy that you will be able to be with us on the occasion of our February meeting. It would be possible for us to make arrangements to suit your convenience as to the exact date. How would Wednesday the 23rd, or Thursday the 24th fit in with your schedule? If these dates are not satisfactory, we might have the meeting a week earlier, say, on Wednes day the 16th, or Thursday the 17th. Our next scheduled meeting is on January 19th. We expect to have the Honorable James W. Fulbright, of the House of Representatives, and the Honorable Sir Gerald Campbell, one of the British ministers, as speakers on this occasion. I should like to have the date of your address fixed prior to this meeting so that the announcement could be emphasized to the members present at the January meeting. If you will indicate to me which of the dates above suggested is the most satisfactory to you, I shall then be able to make all the necessary arrangements well in advance. The meeting which you are to address will be held in the Hall of Government at The George Washington University at 8*30 P.M. This building is located at 21st and G Streets, N. W., on the northwest corner of the intersection. I am sure that your plan of speaking informally without a prepared text will be entirely satisfactory. I recall a very interesting and stimulating address which you gave at the Inquirendo Society a couple The Honorable Marriner S. Eccles -2- 10 January 1944 of years ago at a meeting which was conducted in accordance with this plan of procedure. Our members will welcome most cordially the opportunity to learn from you some principles with regard to one of our most complicated Professor of Law* The George Washington University Chairman* Program Committee Phi Beta Kappa Association January 14, 1944* Mr. Charles S. Collier, Professor of Law, The George Washington University, Washington 6, D. C. Dear Professor Collier: This is to thank you for your letter of January 10, in regard to the date for my talk before the Phi Beta Kappa Association. I very much appreciate your offering me a choice of several dates, and after consulting my schedule, I think that Thursday, February the 24th, would fit in with it most conveniently from my standpoint, and trust that it will from yours. The informality of the Inquirendo meetings is what tempted me to speak to that group in the past, but 1 do not deserve your favorable commentary, for it seemed to me that I had done rather badly on those occasions. Nevertheless, I much prefer to speak informally and will do my best at least to stimulate discussion before your learned and, to me, rather awesome group. Sincerely yours, M. 3. Eccles, Chairman. IT:bod TH E GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON. D. C. 28 January 1944 The Honorable M. S. Eccles Board of Governors Federal Reserve System Washington, D.C. My dear Mr. Eccles* Let me thank you for your letter of January 14, 1944. We are very glad that you will be able to give an address before the Phi Beta Kappa Association. The date, Thursday, February twenty-fourth, which you have selected will be entirely satisfactory from our standpoint. I will make the necessary arrange ments to hold the meeting on that date. Our previous meetings this year have been held at the Hall of Government of The George Washington University at Twenty-first and G Streets, Northwest. Unless I notify you expressly to the contrary, you may assume that the meeting on February twenty-fourth will be held in this same lecture hall. The hour will be 8*30 p.m. I am sure that you will find our procedure at these meetings very informal. It will be desirable to have some opportunity for questions and discussion from the floor, but you will be so far ahead of us with regard to all of these complex financial and economic problems that will arise in the postwar world that the exchange will be very one sided. We have so much to learn from you that it will be a great privilege to all of us to listen to your address. I am sure that such discussion as occurs will be presented from that st4zid point. Chairman, Program Cottnittee Phi Beta Kappa Association of the District of Columbia TH E GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON. D. C. 6 P R E S ID E N T ’ S R OO M 21 February 1944 The Honorable M. S. Eccles Board of Governors Federal Reserve System Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Ecclest I want to remind you of the meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Association, which is scheduled to be held on Thursday, February twenty-fourth at 8*30 p.m. We are looking forward with much pleasure to the oppor tunity of hearing your address on this occasion. In order that the discussion of postwar financial problems will not seem too forbidding in anticipation we have given a popular or journalistic phrasing, for the topic of the subject announced is "What Will Our Money Be Worth After the War?" Z want to emphasize the point that the place of the meeting has been changed. We are planning P a r k H otel^ This change was thought desirable in order to facilitate the serving of light refreshments and in order to enable us to try out the comparative convenience of another place of meeting from the standpoint of the greater number of our active members* Charles S. Collier Chairman Program Committee Phi Beta Kappa Association of the District of Columbia