¶ Jesse Jones has a flock of "double blue eagles" that he wants to give to banks which will sell capital securities to the R. F. C. (TIME, Oct. 23). Jesse Jones wants the big metropolitan banks particularly to win his double blue eagles so that the small banks, which really need fresh funds to qualify for the Government's deposit insurance scheme, will not be bashful about stepping up to the R. F. C. till. Last week the 19 big banks of the New York Clearing House Association, which gave Jesse Jones the bitterest...
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