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.PRESIDENT RUDOLF S.P£CHT, chai rman o f b o a r d HI B E R N 1 / J n I A T I O N A L B A N K N E W O R L E A '. l s , LA. F I R S T VI C E P R E S I D E N T . R O B E R T V. FLEMING, PRESIDENT R IG G S N A T IO N A L W A S H I N G T O N , D. C. BA N K S ECOND VICE PRESIDENT T O M K. S M I T H , P R E S I D E N T BOATMEN’S NATIONAL B A N K ST. LOU IS, MO. 22 E A S T 4 0 ™ ST R E E T TREASURER N E W Y O R K , N.V. HAL Y. L E M O N , v i c e p r e s i d e n t PUBLICIT Y DEPARTM ENT N A T I O N A L B A N K OF D E T R O I T D E T R O I T , M I C HI GA N GURDEN EDWARDS DIRECTOR EXECU TIVE BRANCH MANAGER F. N. S H E P H E R D OFFICE 7 0 8 - 9 COLORADO BUILDING, WA S HI N GTON, D.C. M ER L E E.S ELEC MAN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR CABLE Ad d r e s s : “A B A N " Ne w Y o r k October 22, 1935 The Honorable Marriner S. Eccles, Governor Federal Reserve Board Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Will you kindly send me about fifty copies of the address you will deliver before the convention of the American Bankers Association in New Orleans, Thursday, November 14? I should like to have this material to supply to members of the press in attendance at the convention at the time the speech is delivered. It is not my plan, of course, to make any advance distri bution of this material. October 23, 1935- Mr. Gurden Edwards, Director of Publicity, The American Bankers Association, 22 East ^Oth Street, New York kity. Dear Mr. Edwards: This office is October 22d, addressed questing fifty advance expects to make before vention in New Orleans in receipt of your letter of to Mr. Marriner S. Eccles, re copies of the speech which he your Association at its con on November 14-th. Mr. Eccles does not expect to have his address prepared in time to furnish copies in advance, but he no doubt will bring sufficient copies with him for re lease in New Orleans. Very truly yours, Secretary to Mr. M. S. Eccles. VE:b Chairman IIXTTl^ ir November 21, 1955« Mr* Garden Edwards, American Bankers Association, 22 East 40th Street, Hew York City* Dear Garden* Enclosed are two mimeographed transcripts of the Chairman1s speech as taken down by your expert stenographers and as corrected here, for such permanent record as you may issue* I wired you last night for copies of three speeches and took the liberty of suggesting that you go to the large expense of sending them air» mail* I neglected to mention that X proposed to reimburse you or the A»B*A* for this extravagance« X should have liked to have had more time to talk with you and hope for a better opportunity before long, because there are sundry subjects upon which your advice and counsel would be extremely valuable to me as they have been in the past* Faithfully, Elliott Thurston, Special Assistant to the Chairman* enclosures ETtb
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