HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY
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UNITED STATES SENATE

SEVENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

S. 3055

A BILL TO AMEND THE NATIONAL HOUSING ACT
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

DECEMBER 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, 1937

Printed for the use of the Committee on Banking and Currency

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Bates, Harry C., chairman, housing committee, American Federation

of Labor..

249

Chapin, A. E., president, Suburban Residential Development, Inc.,

Cleveland, Ohio..

300

Colean, Miles L.

212

Curley, Hon. Edward W., a Representative in Congress from the

Twenty-second District of New York..

87

Davison, Robert L., representing John B. Pierce Foundation__.

Drugan, Frank, Los Angeles, Calif...

133

235

Eccles, Marriner S., Chairman, Federal Reserve Board, Washington,

D. C.

164

Ferguson, Abner H.

212

Fisher, Ernest M.

212

Fleming, Robert V., president, Riggs National Bank, Washington,

D. C.

2.8

98

Friedlander, I., president, Gibraltar Savings and Building Association
of Houston, Tex..

256

Green, William president, American Federation of Labor, Washington,
D. C.

236

Gross, George M., president, Gross-Morton Corporation, New York,

N. Y

114

Hersey, Sumner D., Hyde Park, Mass.

230

Jones, Jesse H., Chairman, Board of Directors, Reconstruction

Finance Corporation, Washington, D. C.---

27

Lubin, Isador, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, United States De-

partment of Labor.

140

Marsh, Benjamin C., executive secretary, the People's Lobby, Wash-

ington, D. C.

39

Meyer, Charles Garrison, Bayside, N. Y.

193

McAvoy, Daniel Edward, secretary, Home Mortgage Advisory

Board, New York City...

277

MacDougall, Edward A., chairman, finance committee of the National
Association of Real Estate Boards, New York, N. Y.

McDonald, Stewart, Federal Housing Administrator, Washington,

D. C.__.

80

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Nelson, Herbert, representing the National Association of Real Estate

Boards, Chicago, Ill...

75

Stark, Paul E., president, National Association of Real Estate Boards,
Madison, Wis__

58

Wallace, Hon. Henry A., Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

Wolosoff, A. B., president, Queens-Nassau Home Builders League,

New York..

47

109

Wood, Gen. Robert E., president, Sears, Roebuck & Co.

Woolley, Clarence, chairman, American Radiator & Standard Sanitary

Corporation.

117

Exhibits:

Letter submitted by the chairman from J. Halperin & Co., Inc.,

Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y..........

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