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Printed for the use of the Special Committee Study Problems of American Small Business
UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON: 1942
CONTENTS
Statement of Senator James E. Murray, chairman, United States Senate
Special Committee to Study the Problems of American Small Business_-
Statement of Senator James M. Mead, chairman, subcommittee on Small
Business Risk Capital and Loans Problems, United States Senate Special
Committee to Study the Problems of American Small Business_.
A composite picture of varying viewpoints on small business risk capital
problems
Digest of 17 bills to assist small business financially, introduced into
Congress during 1939-41_.
Thirty-eight typical statements selected from thousands of letters of
small businessmen addressed to the Senate Committee to Study the
Problems of American Small Business indicating the need for small busi- ness risk capital and low-cost loans..
Pertinent viewpoints on the risk capital and loans problems of American
small business selected from hearings before the subcommittee of the
Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, on the Mead bills....
Page
1
2
3
5
15
I. Character loans_.
II. The small businessman viewpoint__
25
III. Testimony of representatives of the National Small Business
Men's Association_
38
IV. The banker viewpoint....
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21
50
82
V. The Federal Credit Agency viewpoint..
Editorial in the American Banker, Apr. 30, 1936, on the effect of the cor- porate chain system on the demand for commercial loans by local banks__
A credit association or credit-union plan enabling local retailers to extend
seasonable credit to farmers, submitted by Flint Garrison, editor, Gar-
rison's Magazine for Independent Retailers, formerly director general,
Wholesale Dry Goods Institute..
Independent commercial banker viewpoints_-
Excerpts from Why Business Failures, by Louis P. Starkweather, associate
professor of finance, New York University.
Notes from study of financial problems of small business by Peter R.
Nehemkis, Jr., former special counsel, Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion, presented in Temporary National Economic Committee Mono-
graph 17, pp. 245–370__.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation loans as of Feb. 29, 1940, from
Temporary National Economic Committee Monograph 17..
Private enterprise seeks solution to small business risk capital problems,
plan of the New England Industrial Development Corporation..
Table of contents of hearings on S 2998 and S. 3839 (Mead bills), June
1940, and on S. 1482 and S. 2343 (Mead bills), May and June 1939, before
a subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United
States Senate_
Ayres, Leonard P., vice president, Cleveland Trust Co., Cleveland,
Ohio__
Brown, Edward E., president, First National Bank, Chicago, Ill
Statements by-Continued.
Cook, H. E., President, Second National Bank, Bucyrus, Ohio-
Courtney, Charles, New York City. -
Eccles, Marriner S., Chairman, Governors of Federal Reserve
System___
Elliott, Edward, vice president, Security-First National Bank, Los
Angeles, Calif.
Ellman, Samuel H., New York City.
Emery, Dewitt M., Akron, Ohio---.
Feyl, Albert J., Atlantic City, N. J.
Garrison, Flint, New York City.
Gottlieb, George A., New York City.
Huck, Wallace, Nutley, N. J----
Jones, Jesse H., Administrator, Federal Loan Agency-
Kleckner, Joseph B., Chicago, Ill.
Koeneke, H. W., president, Security Bank of Ponca City, Okla.---
Kurtz, William Fulton, president, Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on
Lives and Granting Annuities, Philadelphia, Pa. -
Loeb, Howard A., chairman, Tradesmans National Bank & Trust
Co., Philadelphia, Pa--
Markel, Howard, president, Merchants Bank of New York City-
Mead, Senator James M. (New York).
Modell, Harry, New York City...
Murray, Senator James E. (Montana)
Nehemkis, Peter R., Jr.-.-
Pag
2, 33, 34,
Netherland, Wood, vice president, Mercantile Commerce Bank &
Trust Co., St. Louis, Mo..
Pepper, Senator Claude (Florida) --
Nugent, Rolf, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City.
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Perkins, James H., board chairman, National City Bank, New York
City
Schwert, Congressman Pius L. (New York).
Shuman, William I., New York City...
Smith, Walter, president, First National Bank, St. Louis, Mo-
55,
Sprague, M. W., Jacksonville, Fla
Starkweather, Louis P., New York University-
Stoddard, W. L., Boston, Mass..
Tobey, Senator Charles W. (New Hampshire).
Wagner, Senator Robert F. (New York).
Westbrook, James, Bridgeport, Conn...
Wiggins, A. L. M., president, Bank of Hartsville, S. C., representative,
American Bankers Association_
Woodward, Donald, New York City.
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21, 39
49
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