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M IL E H IG H C L U B February 17* 1951 Hon, Marriner S. Eccles Reserve Board Federal Reserve Building Washington, D. C. % Federal Res Mile High Club Dear Mr. Eccles: Backed by the President of the Mile High Club, Mr. Hudson Moore, Jr., and by the Presidents of the First National and the Denver National Banks, namely Mr. John Evans and Mr. Henry Kugeler, who are members of the Mile High Club, I, as chairman of its entertain ment committee, hereby in behalf of the Club extend an invitation to you to be the speaking guest of the Club at some time agreeable to you in the near future. The Club will take care of your travelling expenses and also your hotel expenses while here. The Mile High Club is the leading organization in the Rocky Mountain Region for the entertainment of dis tinguished guests. Enclosed is a leaflet issued at the time that General Eisenhower was the guest. It will give you the names of many of the guests whom the Club has entertained. To this list we hope we may add your name. We should like to hear from you on connected with finance, both national and Naturally the story would have to be told it is a complicated one and difficult for not "up" in that field to understand, yet portant that the knowledge be widespread. some subject international. very simply for those who are it is very im If I may hear from you I shall be greatly obliged. Yours very truly, LWB/ro encl. Chairman of Entertainment Committee March U , 1951. Dear Mr. Bannisters I greatly appreciate the invitation you extended to me in your letter of February 17 to address the members of the Mile High Club. Confirming our telephone conversation and your tele gram of March 13, I will ue glad to address the Club on Tuesday, April 3. 1 want to thank you for honoring me with this opportu nity to appear before the members of the Mile High Club and I assure you I deem it a privilege to do so. With kind regards, Sincerely yours, M. S. Eccles. Mr. L. Ward Bannister, Chairman of Entertainment Committee, Mile % g h Club, c/o Bannister, Weller and Friedrich, 801-807 Equitable Building, Denver 2, Colorado.
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