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Authors: Roger Lowenstein
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overseas trade and,
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proactivity by,
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in Vanderlip’s plan,
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Federal Reserve notes,
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Federal Reserve System,
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enactment of,
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Federal Reserve System, The
(Warburg),
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Federal Trade Commission,
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Ferguson, James E.,
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money, government-issued
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first Bank of the United States,
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Bank of the United States, first
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First National Bank of Little Falls, Minn.,
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First National Bank of Muskogee,
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First National Bank of New York,
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First National Bank of Tombstone, Ariz.,
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First National Bank of Weatherford, Tex.,
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Ford, Henry,
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Forgan, James,
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America’s financing of,
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England’s war with,
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free trade,
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French Revolution,
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Frick, Henry Clay,
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Germany,
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financial system of,
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bankers in,
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economics in,
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Gladstone, William,
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Glass, Carter,
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centralization resisted by,
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at Democratic convention of 1896,
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Federal Reserve Banks and,
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money systems in early life of,
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SEC legislation by,
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Aldrich Plan and,
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Democratic caucus and,
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in House Banking Committee,
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Glass-Steagall Act (1933),
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Bank of England and,
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decentralization of reserves of,
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Federal Reserve System and,
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international movements of,
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intrinsic value of,
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in Klondike,
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money backed by,
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Panic of 1907 and,
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in Reserve Banks,
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San Francisco earthquake and movement of,
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in United States,
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gold certificates,
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Goldman Sachs,
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gold standard,
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abandonment of,
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Bryan’s opposition to,
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Republican Party and,
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González, Henry,
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Goodwin, Doris Kearns,
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government:
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progressives and,
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small,
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government bonds,
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government securities,
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Grant, James,
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Gray, Andrew L.,
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Great Britain,
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America’s financing of,
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commercial banking in,
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interest rates in,
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Lombard Street financiers in,
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Gresham’s Law,
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Griffin, G. Edward,
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Hamilton, Alexander,
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Hardwick, Theodore W.,
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Harriman, Edward H.,
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Harrison, Benjamin,
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Harvard University,
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Harvey, George,
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Harvey, William H.,
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Havemeyer, Theodore,
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Hearst, William Randolph,
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Hearst newspaper chain,
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Heinze, Frederick Augustus,
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Henry, Robert L.,
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History of Crises Under the National Banking System
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History of the American People, A
(Wilson),
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Hitchcock, Gilbert,
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Hitchcock bill,
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House, Edward M.,
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Untermyer and,
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as Wilson’s ally,
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House Banking and Currency Committee,
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legislative panel of,
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Money Trust inquiry under,
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reconstituted, Glass appointed chairman of,
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House Democratic caucus, Glass-Owen and,
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House of Representatives, U.S.,
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Aldrich Plan submitted to,
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Democratic control over,
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Glass-Owen bill in,
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in 1908 elections,
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progressives in,
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tariff reduction in,
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House Rules Committee,
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House-Senate conference,
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Housman, Arthur,
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Houston, David F.,
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Huerta, Victoriano,
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Hunter, John,
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