Scope and Contents Statements, drafts, and correspondence relating to bank holding company legislation, initially aimed at preventing a monopoly by the Bank of America, a holding company of the Transamerica Corporation. After the bank's rapid expansion in the western United States, lawmakers introduced several bills to limit its growth, but none passed. The Bank of America was not restrained until a 1947 investigation prompted by the Federal Reserve board of governors. Some news accounts reported that Eccles'...