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Minutes of actions taken by the Board of Governors of the
hurtaa Reserve System on Wednesday, December 13, 1950.
PRESENT:

Mr. Szymczak, Chairman pro tem.
Mr. Vardaman
Mr. Carpenter, Secretary
Mr. Sherman, Assistant Secretary
Mr. Kenyon, Assistant Secretary

Memorandum dated December 11, 1950, from Mr. Bethea, Director
the D
ivision of Administrative Services, recommending increases
14 the basic annual
salaries of the following employees in that
1)1//isio1,

effective December 24, 1950:

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Title
Assistant Supervisor,
Stenographic Section
Stenographer
Clerk

Salary Increase
To
From
$3,100
2-775
2,650
2,930

2,875

3,050

Approved unanimously.
Telegram to Mr. Davis, President of the FOderal Reserve
°t St. Louis, reading as follows:
t

"Reurtel December 11 advising that your
111tte Executive Committee has granted Vice Presip t WIlliam H. Stead three months' leave with
'
in order that he may act as Chief Economic
prl'iser to Secretary of Interior for defense
h8.1141s administered by the Secretary. Matter
been brought to attention of the Board and
vted without
objection."

4
4

Approved unanimously.
01,44 Letter to Mr. Leedy, President of the Federal Reserve Bank
"
8
City, reading as follows:




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"In accordance with the request contained in
.,c)11r
r
letter of December 7, 19)0, the Board of
Governors approves the employment of Mr. Vincent
O'Plaherty, President of the O'Flaherty-Norman
eal Estate Company of Kansas City, Missouri, as
1E33. Part-time consultant for the Federal Reserve
Of Kansas City in connection with the ad''
o'nistration of Regulation X and the payment
f a fee to him while serving in this capacity
at, the
rate of $50 Per day, plus actual trans8
130!tation
expenses and per diem in lieu of
llo
sistence not to exceed $15."
Approved unanimously.
Letter to the Presidents of all Federal Reserve Banks,
ree41
rig as
follows:
With respect to the use of V-loan guarantees
rer
e, 'Ile purpose of financing facilities and plant
t;Pansion, we have been advised that the following
beY be regarded as a statement of the policy of the
PartMents of the Army, Navy and Air Force.
The Military Departments will limit V-loans
•
clot,
y to working capital purposes, as was
e during World War II. They will not
`kallantee facilities loans as such, but facilities
,!
13 nsi°n, as en incident of V-loans in individual
110-1
:
8, will be permitted where the borrower's
capital is such that capital expansion
Th"-id not delay or impair repayment of the V-loan.
to%I:lre agreed, however, that there is no objection
tak;j4e non-military guaranteeing agencies underDa 'ng to utilize V-loans for financing plantexapr
,
,
ision to the extent found feasible and deemed
°Priate by those other guaranteeing ag. • ies."

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Approved unanimous

Secre -ry.