Creation of a Reconstruction Finance Corporation: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-second Congress, First Session on S. 1, a Bill to Provide Emergency Financing Facilities for Banks and Other Financial Institutions and for Other Purposes. December 18, 19, 21, 22, 1931. Printed for the Use of the Committee on Banking and Currency |
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... liquid condition to endeavor to remain so as long as a danger is threatening through a weaker institution or a weak situation , whether it be at home or abroad . The European situation has been a pall on the world's economic and ...
... liquid condition to endeavor to remain so as long as a danger is threatening through a weaker institution or a weak situation , whether it be at home or abroad . The European situation has been a pall on the world's economic and ...
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... liquid assets of the banks . They have , I believe , helped many situations , both psychologically and financially . Senator BULKLEY . They have not paid in any of that capital , have they ? Governor MEYER . They have made loans , and ...
... liquid assets of the banks . They have , I believe , helped many situations , both psychologically and financially . Senator BULKLEY . They have not paid in any of that capital , have they ? Governor MEYER . They have made loans , and ...
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... liquid , and advised them to buy those listed bonds in New York ? Governor MEYER . In the last 15 months I should say that is dis- tinctly not so . Of course , it is fair to say that the examiners of 94122-32-3 the national banks are ...
... liquid , and advised them to buy those listed bonds in New York ? Governor MEYER . In the last 15 months I should say that is dis- tinctly not so . Of course , it is fair to say that the examiners of 94122-32-3 the national banks are ...
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... liquid as possible . That is one trouble with our present situation , as Senator Glass said yesterday . The bankers are all trying to protect their own institutions , keeping themselves in as liquid a condition as possible , and they ...
... liquid as possible . That is one trouble with our present situation , as Senator Glass said yesterday . The bankers are all trying to protect their own institutions , keeping themselves in as liquid a condition as possible , and they ...
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... liquid , and which were not in a position to provide cash on demand to meet withdrawals of alarmed depositors . The credit corporation was designed , as I understand it , to take care of only this latter class of banks . It could not ...
... liquid , and which were not in a position to provide cash on demand to meet withdrawals of alarmed depositors . The credit corporation was designed , as I understand it , to take care of only this latter class of banks . It could not ...
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Page 5 - If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this Act shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this Act, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Page 1 - The management of the corporation shall be vested in a board of directors consisting of...
Page 3 - Any and all notes, debentures, bonds or other such obligations issued by the corporation shall be exempt both as to principal and Interest from all taxation (except surtaxes, estate, inheritance, and gift taxes) now or hereafter imposed by the United States, by any territory, dependency or possession thereof, or by any state, county, municipality or local taxing authority.
Page 2 - The Corporation shall be entitled to the free use of the United States mails in the same manner as the executive departments of the Government.
Page 2 - That the corporation shall be empowered and authorized to adopt, alter, and use a corporate seal; to make contracts; to purchase or lease and hold...
Page 2 - The board of directors of the corporation shall determine and prescribe the manner in which its obligations shall be incurred and its expenses allowed and paid.
Page 2 - SEC. 5. To aid in financing agriculture, commerce, and industry, including facilitating the exportation of agricultural and other products the corporation is authorized and empowered to make loans, upon such terms and conditions not inconsistent with this Act as it may determine...
Page 3 - The Corporation, including its franchise, its capital, reserves, and surplus, and its income shall be exempt from all taxation now or hereafter imposed by the United States, by any Territory, dependency, or possession thereof, or by any State, county, municipality, or local taxing authority...
Page 5 - Whoever makes any statement knowing it to be false, or whoever willfully overvalues any security, for the purpose of obtaining for himself or for any applicant any loan, or extension thereof by renewal, deferment of action, or otherwise, or the acceptance, release, or substitution of security therefor, or for the purpose of influencing in any way the action of the...
Page 1 - Act shall be construed to prevent the appointment and compensation as an officer or employee of the Corporation of any officer or employee of the United States in any board, commission, independent establishment, or executive department thereof.