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Banks. "A method should be devised to make available quickly to depositors some portion of their deposits in closed banks. Such provision would go far to relieve distress in a multitude of families. ... I recommend the prompt improvement of the banking laws. The Congress should investigate the need for separation between different kinds of banking; an enlargement of branch banking ... enlarged membership in the Federal Reserve system...
Mortgage Discount. "I recommend the establishment of a system of home-loan discount banks as the necessary companion of the Federal Reserve Banks and our Federal Land Banks." (TIME...
Reconstruction Corp. "I recommend that an emergency Reconstruction Corporation of the nature of the former War Finance Corporation should be established.† It may not be necessary to use such an instrumentality very extensively. It should be in a position to facilitate exports, make advances to agricultural credit agencies, to establish industries, railways and financial institutions which cannot otherwise secure credit. It should be placed in liquidation at the end of two years...
Public Works. "I recommend that all building and construction activities of the Government be consolidated into an independent establishment under the President to be known as the 'Public Works Administration...
...estimates $365,000,000 below 1932 appropriations (major cuts: Farm Board. $100,000,000; Shipping Board, $36,000,000; drought loans and highway work, $49,000,000; Navy, $17,000,000; Army, $36,000,000). But economy was-not enough to balance the budget. President Hoover had to recommend tax-upping...