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Minutes for March

To:

6, 1961

Members of the Board

From: Office of the Secretary

Attached is a copy of the minutes of the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on
the above date.
It is not proposed to include a statement
With respect to any of the entries in this set of
minutes in the record of policy actions required to
be maintained pursuant to section 10 of the Federal
Reserve Act.
Should you have any question with regard to
the minutes, it will be appreciated if you will advise
the Secretary's Office. Otherwise, please initial below.
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indicate approval of the minutes. If you were not present,
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minutes.




Chin. Martin
Gov. Szymczak
Gov. Mills
Gov. Robertson
Gov. Balderston
Gov. Shepardson
Gov. King

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Minutes of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
On Monday,
March
PRESENT:

6,

1961.

Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

The Board met in the Board Room at 10:00 a.m.

Martin, Chairman
Balderston, Vice Chairman
Szymczak
Robertson
Shepardson
King
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.

Sherman, Secretary
Kenyon, Assistant Secretary
Thomas, Adviser to the Board
Young, Adviser to the Board
Molony, Assistant to the Board
Fauver, Assistant to the Board
Petersen, Special Assistant,
Office of the Secretary

Messrs. Marget, Furth, Hersey, Sammons,
Katz, Dahl, Irvine, Maroni, Reynolds,
and Wood of the Division of International
Finance
Messrs. Noyes, Garfield, Holland, Koch,
Robinson, Brill, Dembitz, Williams,
Eckert, Gehman, Manookian, Solomon,
Weiner, Wernick, and Wood, and Miss
Dingle of the Division of Research
and Statistics
Economic review.

The Division of International Finance commented

°11 developments affecting the international financial position of the
United States, following which the Division of Research and Statistics
l'elriewed domestic economic conditions.
After discussion based on this presentation, the members of the
8taff other than Messrs. Sherman, Kenyon, Young, Molony, Noyes, Koch,




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arldIkath withdrew from the meeting. Mr. Hackley, General Counsel,
entered the roam at this point.
Testimony_before Joint Economic Committee. There had been
distributed
to the members of the Board a draft of statement to be
resented by Cbeirman Martin before the Congressional Joint Economic
Committee on March 7, 1961, in connection with hearings on the 1961
ec"

e Report of the President.
General agreement was expressed with the content of the state-

ment/ and the suggested changes were principally of an editorial nature.
va
8 understood that these suggestions would be taken into consideration
in 1..."4
-"v-Lsing the draft and that the statement would be presented in a final
t°111 satisfactory to Chairman Martin.
The meeting then adjourned.




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