Scope and Contents Letters written during Currie's years as a member of the Federal Reserve Board, at the White House, and after he moved to Colombia. An ardent Keynesian, Currie was a senior analyst for the Treasury when Eccles was assistant to Secretary Morgenthau. In 1934, he left the Treasury with Eccles and served on the Federal Reserve Board. He took a leave of absence from the board in 1939 to become an administrative assistant for Roosevelt, serving several foreign economic missions. After...

Scope and Contents Correspondence written mostly after Davis left Washington and copies of his speeches on agricultural affairs. Davis was appointed as a governor of the Federal Reserve Board in 1936, representing agricultural interests. In 1940 he was reappointed to a fourteen-year term, but resigned in 1941 to become president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, a war-time food administrator, and a member of the National Defense Council. In 1951 he became assistant director of the Ford Foundation. Davis...

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Correspondence with Dreibelbis, principally regarding problems in the Federal Reserve Board's legal division and Dreibelbis' recommendations for improvement. He joined the legal department of the Federal Reserve Board in 1935.

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Correspondence and a speech by Nardin, a Federal Reserve agent, chairman of the board of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, and Eccles' friend. Nardin was president of the Pet Milk Company, of which Eccles was a director.

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Letters concerning the price and inflow of gold and a copy of Wood's speech, "Our Foreign Policy," given before the Council on Foreign Relations. In 1936, Wood, then president of Sears, Roebuck & Company, was appointed a class C director and deputy chairman of the board of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Flanders, president of Jones and Lamson Machine Company in Vermont. Flanders began his correspondence with Eccles and Elliott Thurston in July 1937 when he submitted portions of the manuscript, Towards Full Employment, to the Federal Reserve Board for criticism. He served as chairman of the research committee of the Committee for Economic Development, and in 1944 was appointed president of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank. In 1946, he won his election bid for the U.S....

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Correspondence and other materials involving Lauchlin Currie, Chester C. Davis, J.P. Dreibelbis, William T. Nardin, General Robert E. Wood, and Ralph Flinders.