Practical Problems in Banking and Currency: Being a Number of Selected Addresses Delivered in Recent Years by Prominent Bankers, Financiers and EconomistsWalter Henry Hull Macmillan, 1907 - 596 páginas |
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... tion as to its agreeable and effective prosecution ; and we feel sure that appreciation of their good will and generous co - operation can- not be better shown than by making their work the medium of a broad and intelligent view of the ...
... tion as to its agreeable and effective prosecution ; and we feel sure that appreciation of their good will and generous co - operation can- not be better shown than by making their work the medium of a broad and intelligent view of the ...
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... tion of it ; and were we to show ourselves negligent of the obligations . we have been only too anxious to assume , it would be more than cowardly to take refuge in excuses based on pretended inexperience , or upon the novelty of a ...
... tion of it ; and were we to show ourselves negligent of the obligations . we have been only too anxious to assume , it would be more than cowardly to take refuge in excuses based on pretended inexperience , or upon the novelty of a ...
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... tion the banker is entitled to all the aid that he can secure . And it must be added that there has been steady progress in the means adopted for assuring the character of this basis for credit . It was perhaps the most perfect system ...
... tion the banker is entitled to all the aid that he can secure . And it must be added that there has been steady progress in the means adopted for assuring the character of this basis for credit . It was perhaps the most perfect system ...
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... tion afforded by our higher institutions has been abstract , hair- splitting , devoid of relation to actual life . It has been metaphysical rather than practical . But this trouble is now at last being appre- hended , and the remedy is ...
... tion afforded by our higher institutions has been abstract , hair- splitting , devoid of relation to actual life . It has been metaphysical rather than practical . But this trouble is now at last being appre- hended , and the remedy is ...
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... tion and discussion . Recent circumstances have caused me to de- vote time and thought to a question to which I had previously given comparatively little attention , viz . , the extension of our banking system to other countries ...
... tion and discussion . Recent circumstances have caused me to de- vote time and thought to a question to which I had previously given comparatively little attention , viz . , the extension of our banking system to other countries ...
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Página 228 - July 14, 1890, are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except where otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. United States notes are legal tender for all debts, public and private, except duties on imports and interest on the public debt.
Página 536 - ... 1. To act as the fiscal or transfer agent of any state, municipality, body politic or corporation ; and in such capacity to receive and disburse money, to transfer, register and countersign certificates of stock, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, and to act as agent of any corporation, foreign or domestic, for any lawful purpose.
Página 98 - States, shall (except to the extent permitted by rules and regulations prescribed by the Comptroller of the Currency, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury) be subject under this section to a limitation of 15 per centum of such capital and surplus in addition to such 10 per centum of such capital and surplus.
Página 514 - ... auctioneer, to transact the business, in such a case, the principal agent will not ordinarily be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of the sub-agent, if he has used reasonable diligence in his choice as to the skill and ability of the sub-agent. But, indisputable as is this principle, it has no relevancy to an agency like the present. The cashier of a bank, while carrying into execution...
Página 98 - ... who shall have power to make a thorough examination into all the affairs of the association, and, in doing so, to examine any of the officers and agents thereof on oath ; and shall make a full and detailed report of the condition of the association to the Comptroller.
Página 333 - ... could they vote on questions where they were interested. On all applications for loans above $500, a majority vote of five-sevenths of the board was necessary, and this must be entered on the minutes with the names of the directors so voting. Directors were individually liable for losses resulting from infraction of the law, unless they had voted against the same and caused their votes to be -entered on the minutes, and had notified the Governor of the State of such infraction forthwith, ami...
Página 285 - A person violating any provisions of this section shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of five dollars for each such violation.
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Página 188 - that it has become absolutely necessary that a consistent, straightforward, and deliberately-planned monetary system shall be inaugurated, the fundamental basis of which should be : first, that the present gold standard should be maintained ; second, that steps should be taken to insure the ultimate retirement of all classes of United States notes by a gradual...