Franklin D. Roosevelt

White House Statement on Creating a Coordinating Committee for Federal Lending Activities.

November 14, 1934

To obtain improved cooperation among Federal agencies engaged in lending Government funds, either directly or indirectly, the President has created a Loan Committee comprising the heads of the following departments and agencies, with the Secretary of the Treasury designated as Chairman:

Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury

Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior

and as— Administrator of the Emergency

Administration of Public Works

Administrator of the Emergency Public

Works Housing Corporation

W. I. Myers, Governor of the Farm Credit Administration

John H. Fahey, Chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank

Board

and as— Chairman of the Home Owners Loan

Corporation

Chester C. Davis, Administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment

Administration

George N. Peek, President of the Export-Import Bank

Lynn P. Talley, President of the Commodity Credit

Corporation

Leo T. Crowley, Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance

Corporation

Jesse H. Jones, Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance

Corporation

Marriner S. Eccles, Governor of the Federal Reserve

Board

James A. Moffett, Administrator of the Federal Housing

Administration

Franklin D. Roosevelt, White House Statement on Creating a Coordinating Committee for Federal Lending Activities. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/208218

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