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TH E GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
WASHINGTON. D. C.

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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.

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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




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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.

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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

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WASHINGTON. D. C.

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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