A banker has been defined as a man who offers you an umbrella, then wants it back when it starts to rain. There has been plenty of rain this year in U. S. economic life and bank vaults are stuffed with umbrellas—$2,500,000,000 in excess reserves. Last week this familiar situation was attacked from a new angle by Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve System. Mr. Eccles is a smalltown banker from Utah and so ardent a believer in New Deal theories of credit control that he has often been a White House...
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