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Currency Reform Nonpartisan Movement Aims National Scope
John Clafin of H B Claflin & Co leads New York branch of the National Citizens League advocating currency and banking reform to end panics. The plan favors a National Reserve Association with government cooperation, no central bank, and stock-held banks funded to about 300 million dollars. Directors span major firms. leagues form in multiple states to push nationwide reform.
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New York American
John Clafin
H. B. Claflin & Company
New York State
National Citizens’ League
New York
Mr. Claflin
Isidor Straus
Irving T. Bush
William Sloane
George A. Plimpton
No. 100
Broad Street
Mr. Clattin
Monetary Commission
League
Congress
National Reserve Association
Mr. Calflin
Cleveland H. Dodge
Phelps, Dodge & Co
John C. Barnes
H. B. Claflin & Co
Gerrish H. Milliken
Derring, Milliken & Co
J. Harper Poor
Amory, Browne & Co
Henry A. Caesar
H. A. Caesar & Co
Arthur Lehman
Lehman Brothers
Edward D. Page
Faulkner, Page & Co
Welding Ring
Mailler & Quebeau
Cornelius N. Bliss, Jr
Bliss, Fabyan Co
James Talcott
American Hosiery Co
Hermann Mleitmann
Pleitmann & Co
James J. Post
B. H. Howell Son & Co
Frank Trumbull
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co
Edmund D. Fisher
New York City
Chicago
B. BE. Sunny
Chicago Telephone Company
Cyrus MH. McCormick
International Harvester Company
Harry A. Wheeler
Chicago Association of Commerce
John G. Shedd
Marshall Field & Co
F. A. Delano
The
Wabash Railroad Company
FW. Upham
City Fuel Company
Marvin Hughitt
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company
Jurlius Rosenwald
Sears, Roebuck & Co
A Sprague
Sprag
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
National League
National
United States