Silver: Hearings Before a Special Committee on the Investigation of Silver, United States Senate, Seventy-sixth Congress, First Session [76th Congress, 1st Session] Pursuant to S. Res. 187 (74th Congress), a Resolution Authorizing a Special Committee of the Senate to Investigate the Administration, and the Economic and Commercial Effect, of the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 ...

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Newspaper clipping entitled Mr Eccles on SilverRepeal of purchase
166
Excepts from Twentythird Annual Report of the Board of Governors
176
Table showing fine ounces of silver withdrawn from coinage by various
178
Table showing silver currenciesdescription of largest coin in each
182
Part 3
188
Editorial from the Denver Post indicating that banks are buying Federal
189
Morgenthau Jr Hon Henry Secretary of the Treasury__
191
Quotation from book on the Federal Reserve System by Paul M Warburg
200
Letter of March 3 1939 from Senator John G Townsend Jr to
207
Quotations from Ricordo John Locke David Hume John Stuart Mill
208
Part 6
214
Excerpt on Mechanism for Supplying Currency from book by W Ran
229
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233
Quotation of Lord Gladstone before British Parliament advocating small
240
Excerpt from McCullochs Men and Measures of Half a Century pe
252
Lord Readings expression of gratitude for Americas loan to Great
260
Soetbeers table of relative prices 184791 Germany
266
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267
Table showing the bullion value of 3714 grains of pure silver 18371902_
274
INSERTED MATERIAL
275
Table showing exports of silver from London to India China and
277
Excerpts from Annual Report of the Board of Governors of the Federal
286
Table showing ratios of national income bank deposits loans and invest
287
Table showing national income as reported and as adjusted 193438
290
Table showing World supply and consumption of silver presented
292
Press release of March 13 1939 of the Board of Governors of the Federal
298
Excerpt from address of Hon Chester C Davis a member of the Board
304
Table showing national income as reported and as adjusted by the ratio
309

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Página 270 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Página 376 - ... health conditions and Increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste In the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral Industries; to inquire Into the economic conditions affecting these Industries; to Investigate explosives and peat; and on behalf of the Government to investigate the mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to, or for the use of, the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining...
Página 29 - ... without having the proper stamps affixed thereto, with intent to evade the foregoing provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not exceeding $1,000 or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Página 780 - In an excessive and discriminatory tax and establishes what would be a fair and Just amount representing normal earnings to be used as a constructive average base period net Income...
Página 442 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both, at the discretion of the court...
Página 441 - All coins and currencies of the United States (including Federal Reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal Reserve banks and national banking associations) heretofore or hereafter coined or issued, shall be legal tender for all debts, public and private, public charges, taxes, duties, and dues...
Página 506 - Congress, to employ such clerical and other assistants, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable.
Página 440 - ... all forms of money issued or coined by the United States shall be maintained at a parity with this standard and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to maintain such parity, but in no event shall the weight of the gold dollar be fixed so as to reduce its present weight by more than 50 per centum.
Página 440 - By proclamation to fix the weight of the gold dollar in grains nine tenths fine and also to fix the weight of the silver dollar in grains nine tenths fine at a definite fixed ratio in relation to the gold dollar at such amounts as he finds necessary from his investigation to stabilize domestic prices or to protect the foreign commerce against the adverse effect of depreciated foreign currencies...
Página 376 - Interior, to conduct Inquiries and scientific and technologic Investigations concerning mining, and the preparation, treatment, and utilization of mineral substances with a view to Improving health conditions and Increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste In the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries...

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