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Last February when a 20,000-word banking bill was slapped down under the nose of Congress, the White House hastily disclaimed responsibility for the measure. Hence it was called the Eccles Bill after its sponsor, Marriner Stoddard Eccles. But because the Governor of the Federal Reserve Board was the...
President Roosevelt, he twice virtually declared, was a liar and hypocrite. Of the Banking Bill, which his foes the bankers also mortally hate and fear, Priest Coughlin roared: "In order to deceive the people of the United States, instead of driving the money changers from the temple as was promised...
¶Confirmed the appointment of Marriner Stoddard Eccles of Utah to be governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Purposely absent when the Banking & Currency Committee took its final vote was Governor Eccles' warm foe. Carter Glass of Virginia, who mortally hates the Eccles plan for tightening Government control of...
"Starched collar and high hat," yes. "Snobbish," most emphatically. But "tails," no, a thousand times NO! ... A complete absence of tail is the salient feature of the Eton jacket. Its brief and ridiculous course terminates abruptly and without reason in the small of the back, and this gives it its...
Director Marriner S. Eccles. . . none