It becomes a question of control.
The issuance and control of the medium of exchange which we call 'money' is a high prerogative of government.
I do not believe it desirable in the public interest that an exact value be now fixed.
Such legislation places the right, title and ownership to our gold reserves in the Government itself.
Probably very little.
Our national currency must be maintained as a sound currency which, insofar as possible, will have a fairly constant standard of purchasing ...
It is a prudent step to vest in the Government of a Nation the title to and possession of all monetary gold within its boundaries.
There has been absolutely no doubt from the legal point of view of the authority under the previous Act to stabilize more than once.
It is right or proper that a handful of people... should have the right, without check, at their own sweet will, to dump Government bonds in...
The bill makes it between 50 and 60.
This is protective armor for any Government, and we ought to have it.
All this is in confidence until the message is released and nothing is to be said in advance of the release.
We should supplement what most of us frankly believe to be the moral responsibility of the Government by adding the necessary legal responsi...
There are two main considerations, navigation and power.
I request the consideration of ratification by the Senate of the so-called St. Lawrence Treaty with Canada.
The result of providing a bond on which both the principal and interest are guaranteed would be to put such bonds on a par with Treasury sec...
It is, I believe, a historic fact that every great improvement directed to better commercial communications... have all been subjected to op...
I now recommend that the Emergency Farm Credit Act of 1933 be amended to provide responsibility by the Government for the payment of the pri...
