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a On June 17 , 1932 , Charles Gates Dawes walked into a meeting of the directors of the Central Republic Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and demanded that he be elected chairman of its Board . The bank was in trouble as , in varying ...
a On June 17 , 1932 , Charles Gates Dawes walked into a meeting of the directors of the Central Republic Bank and Trust Company of Chicago and demanded that he be elected chairman of its Board . The bank was in trouble as , in varying ...
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a better for all the banks if they had closed at that time and remained closed until the enactment of a bank - guarantee law . Indeed , the banks were closed nine months later , at the beginning of the Roosevelt administration .
a better for all the banks if they had closed at that time and remained closed until the enactment of a bank - guarantee law . Indeed , the banks were closed nine months later , at the beginning of the Roosevelt administration .
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a a few weeks of that calamitous summer , would sweep over the whole commercial - bank structure , first of the Midwest , then of the nation . New York , they assured , would participate in the loan to the extent of $ 10,000,000 .
a a few weeks of that calamitous summer , would sweep over the whole commercial - bank structure , first of the Midwest , then of the nation . New York , they assured , would participate in the loan to the extent of $ 10,000,000 .
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| Title | Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes, Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Author | Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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