Banks are no longer news in Manhattan or Chicago where the crises were passed months before President Roosevelt's national moratorium. But in three of the biggest cities of the land banks still splash the front pages with considerable regularity.* In Philadelphia the news is the prosecution or conviction of officers in several small defunct institutions. In Detroit it is the desperate effort to find out why its biggest banks were (and still are) shut tight.† In Cleveland it is the muckraking of Ohio's State Senate bank investigating committee. While liquidators began mailing the first...
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