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Calvin Coolidge: I am not familiar enough with the exact workings and practice of the Federal Reserve System so that comments that I…

On the recordJanuary 5, 1928
I am not familiar enough with the exact workings and practice of the Federal Reserve System so that comments that I might make relative to the amount of brokers' loans and so on would be of very much value.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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