Quote – Telegram from H.J. Hull in the statement of Hon. Compton I. White, Idaho Congressman, Testimony, House Committee on Banking and Currency.

The enactment of the foregoing bill as introduced would, in our opinion, eventually ruin the original home thrift institutions, such as ours, and approximately 11,000 others in the United States holding the savings of 10,000,000 of our people in the aggregate sum of approximately $8,000,000,000.

Telegram from H.J. Hull in the statement of Hon. Compton I. White, A Representative in Congress from the State of Idaho (pgs 366-368) [includes telegrams/letters from constituents]; Hearings. Committee on Banking and Currency. House. May 18, 25, 26, 28-31, June 1, 2, 4, 1934

Friday, May 18, 1934
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