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Hero of the Federal Reserve Act was little Carter Glass of Virginia. Last week Senator Glass, now 74, sharper in voice and crustier in manner than in 1913, was again cast in a heroic role. An archfoe of speculation for many a long year, he was bitterly chagrined with 1929?5 great wave of stock inflation in defiance of the Federal Reserve. After a year's investigation he proposed reforms which he felt would halt speculation for good and all?reforms which would alter the entire conduct of a nation's banking, which law-makers called sweeping, bankers devastating...