Word: governor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Mr. Crissinger resigned as governor of the Federal Reserve Board. One of the few Harding appointees reappointed by President Coolidge, he was the last important member of the so-called "Ohio Gang"† and the last member, important, or unimportant, of the "Chain Gang" or the "Stunners" left in Washington. He explained to President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon that his resignation was in no way influenced by the controversy which the Federal Reserve Board had lately with its Chicago member bank, when Mr. Crissinger was charged with domineering because he cast a deciding vote to make the Chicago...
...Durant, Miss., a great piece of cheese lay on a massive platform last week. The cheese weighed 2,000 Ibs. and in its way was as notable as the notables who stood about it, sniffed at it, rolled a slice from its savory bulk over their tongues-Governor Dennis Murphree of Mississippi, President Lawrence Aloysius Downs of the Illinois Central, President John H. Kraft of the Kraft Cheese Co., and many another...
Daniel Richard Crissinger, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, tendered his resignation. Though bankers and lawyers were still dis- puting whether or not he had been "domineering" in forcing a reduced re-discount rate on the Chicago Federal bank (TIME, Sept. 12), Mr. Crissinger said that this dispute had nothing to do with his with- drawal...
Likely candidates for the vacant governorship seemed to be: Agent General for Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert; Edward Henry Cun- ningham of Iowa, already a Federal Reserve Board member; William P. Gould Harding, governor of the Boston Federal bank. Mr. Harding was Mr. Crissinger's predecessor...
Died. George W. Hayes, one-time (1913-17) Governor of Arkansas; in Little Rock, of pneumonia...