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Other provisions in one bill or the other: 1) Federal Reserve banks are to withhold credit from member banks which use it for stockmarket speculation; 2) savings and Morris Plan banks are to be admitted to the Reserve system; 3) national bank directorates are to be limited to 25; 4) interest on demand deposits is to cease; 5) officers may not borrow from their own banks...
...Comptroller of the Currency, as well as counsel for the New York Clearing House, requested the Department of Justice, at the time the facts were transmitted to me, to withhold action until the bank's affairs could, if possible, be straightened out. This request was acceded to by the Department of Justice. I acted within 24 hours after the restriction upon my proceedings was removed...
...unfortunate that the cost will withhold these advantages from those who could make most use of them. True, there will be limited scholarships for able students who are financially dependent, but the limitation must necessarily be great. Regardless of class, the man without support of any kind, whose search for a position has been fruitless, and whose mind becomes consequently ever more bitter and stale is the most pressing problem of any depression. The present step of the Business School has many recommendations, but it can claim small virtue as an altruistic relief measure...
...adopt a laissez-faire attitude in the question, and to withhold support of the League is to provide the muddy streams of graft with further substance. Already the League has organized itself in good shape under responsible leadership; economy itself is a non-partisan issue. In supporting the League students will be give further strength to a sound movement that merits their cooperation...
What did Boss Koenig get? Despite denials, even Republicans were sure that Tammany had been gotten to promise to withhold enough votes from Governor Roosevelt in the national election to let New York go for Herbert Hoover...