Agricultural Inquiry, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - Agriculture |
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agricultural paper amount bankers basic line bills payable borrowing cent per annum certificates of indebtedness CHAIRMAN charged City banks clearing house collateral commercial paper commission committee Comptroller cotton country banks crop Currency December demand deposits discount rates examination expansion fact farmers Federal reserve act Federal reserve bank Federal Reserve Board Federal reserve district Federal reserve notes Federal reserve system figures funds gold Government Governor increase interest rates issued January July June lending letter Liberty bonds loans and discounts matter member banks months national banks Nonagricultural officers period progressive rate question rate of interest record rediscounts referred Representative MILLS Representative SUMNERS Representative TEN EYCK securities Semiagricultural Senator HARRISON Senator LENROOT situation speculative statement stock exchange STRONG tion Treasury WILLIAMS York banks York City York reserve bank York Stock Exchange
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Page 275 - Second. To have succession for a period of twenty years from its organization unless it is sooner dissolved by an Act of Congress, or unless its franchise becomes forfeited by some violation of law.
Page 275 - To exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking...
Page 272 - To grant by special permit to national banks applying therefor, when not in contravention of State or local law, the right to act as trustee, executor, administrator, registrar of stocks and bonds, guardian of estates, assignee, receiver committee of estates of lunatics, or in any other fiduciary capacity...
Page 275 - The board of directors shall perform the duties usually appertaining to the office of directors of banking associations and all such duties as are prescribed by law.
Page 612 - We do not see how a better test can be applied to the question whether reasonable or not than by considering whether the restraint is such only as to afford a fair protection to the interests of the party in favor of whom it is given, and not so large as to interfere with the interests of the public.
Page 398 - Said board shall administer the affairs of said bank fairly and impartially and without discrimination in favor of or against any member bank or banks and shall, subject to the provisions of law and the orders of the Federal Reserve Board, extend to each member bank such discounts, advancements and accommodations as may be safely and reasonably made .with due regard for the claims and demands of other member banks.
Page 275 - Third. To make contracts. Fourth. To sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law or equity.
Page 282 - Board, extend to each member bank such discounts, advancements, and accommodations as may be safely and reasonably made with due regard for the claims and demands of other member banks, the maintenance of sound credit conditions, and the accommodation of commerce, industry, and agriculture.
Page 272 - To suspend, for the violation of any of the provisions of this Act, the operations of any Federal reserve bank, to take possession thereof, administer the same during the period of suspension, and, when deemed advisable, to liquidate or reorganize such bank.
Page 273 - To employ such attorneys, experts, assistants, clerks, or other employees as may be deemed necessary to conduct the business of the board. All salaries and fees shall be fixed in advance by said board and shall be paid in the same manner as the salaries of the members of said board. All such attorneys, experts, assistants, clerks, and other employees shall be appointed without regard to the provisions of the Act of January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and...