Stabilization: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency House of Representatives, Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 7895 a Bill to Amend Paragraph (d) of Section 14 of the Federal Reserve Act, as Amended,to Provide for the Stabilization of the Price Level for Commodities in General |
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... Dr. Irving Fisher , Professor of Economics , Yale University ----- 53 , 76 , 104 Norman Lombard , Executive Director of the Stable Money Associa- tion , San Francisco , Calif . 106 Dr. Frank A. Wolff , Bureau of Standards , Washington ...
... Dr. Irving Fisher , Professor of Economics , Yale University ----- 53 , 76 , 104 Norman Lombard , Executive Director of the Stable Money Associa- tion , San Francisco , Calif . 106 Dr. Frank A. Wolff , Bureau of Standards , Washington ...
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... Dr. Alfred Zimmermann , commissioner general of the League of Nations at ... Doctor Zimmermann has made a very strong country out of Austria . Faith will ... Wolff , Bureau of Standards , Washington , D. C. , before the Committee on ...
... Dr. Alfred Zimmermann , commissioner general of the League of Nations at ... Doctor Zimmermann has made a very strong country out of Austria . Faith will ... Wolff , Bureau of Standards , Washington , D. C. , before the Committee on ...
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... Doctor Wolff desires to make a statement , I believe ; and Mr. Starr told me he wanted to make a statement . Mr. KING . I would like to ask the chairman a question . Would it not be possible to call in some representatives of farm ...
... Doctor Wolff desires to make a statement , I believe ; and Mr. Starr told me he wanted to make a statement . Mr. KING . I would like to ask the chairman a question . Would it not be possible to call in some representatives of farm ...
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... Doctor Miler and other members of the board to attend the hearing to be held March 24 to consider H. R. 7895 ... Wolff . STATEMENT OF DR . FRANK A. WOLFF , CHIEF TELEPHONE SEC- TION , BUREAU OF STANDARDS , WASHINGTON , D. C. The CHAIRMAN ...
... Doctor Miler and other members of the board to attend the hearing to be held March 24 to consider H. R. 7895 ... Wolff . STATEMENT OF DR . FRANK A. WOLFF , CHIEF TELEPHONE SEC- TION , BUREAU OF STANDARDS , WASHINGTON , D. C. The CHAIRMAN ...
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... Doctor WOLFF . Yes , sir . However , we may have to come to the Goldsborough plan or some other plan at some later time , if the world stays on a gold basis , and if for any reason our gold reserve is depleted . I believe that if we ...
... Doctor WOLFF . Yes , sir . However , we may have to come to the Goldsborough plan or some other plan at some later time , if the world stays on a gold basis , and if for any reason our gold reserve is depleted . I believe that if we ...
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Page 432 - No. • that he is the of , the corporation described in and which executed the foregoing instrument; that he knows the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal; that it...
Page 496 - Board, to open and maintain banking accounts in foreign countries, appoint correspondents, and establish agencies in such countries wheresoever it may deem best for the purpose of purchasing, selling, and collecting bills of exchange, and to buy and sell with or without its indorsement, through such correspondents or agencies, bills of exchange arising out of actual commercial transactions...
Page 123 - Unless the machinery which long experience has shown to be the only effective remedy for an adverse balance of trade and an undue growth of credit...
Page 547 - To establish from time to time, subject to review and determination of the Federal Reserve Board, rates of discount to be charged by the Federal Reserve bank for each class of paper, which shall be fixed with a view of accommodating commerce and business...
Page 14 - The tariff revision recognized the difference in the cost of production at home and abroad...
Page 61 - IN WITNESS WHEREOF the Borrower has caused this agreement to be signed in its corporate name by its President and its corporate seal to be hereunto affixed and attested by its Secretary, and the United States of America has caused this agreement to be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
Page 127 - States provides that the Congress shall have power — To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard' of weights and measures: To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.
Page 121 - Credit will be regulated, not only with a view to maintaining the. currencies • at par with one another, but also with a view to preventing undue fluctuations in the purchasing power of gold.
Page 459 - Federal reserve agents as hereinafter set forth and for no other purpose, are hereby authorized. The said notes shall be obligations of the United States and shall be receivable by all national and member banks and Federal reserve banks and for all taxes, customs, and other public dues.
Page 11 - ... gold dollar, the weight of which is so fixed, shall be the standard unit of value,' and that 'all forms of money shall be maintained at a parity with this standard...