Bretton Woods Agreements Act: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, on H. R. 2211, a Bill to Provide for the Participation of the United States in the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ...United States. Congress. House. Committee on banking and currency, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency U.S. Government Printing Office, 1945 |
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Page 511 - I doubt, too, whether any other convention we can obtain may be able to make a better Constitution. For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Page 219 - Having subscribed to a common program of purposes and principles embodied in the joint declaration of the President of the .United States of America and the Prime Minister of .the United Kingdom...
Page 219 - ... directed to the expansion, by appropriate international and domestic measures, of production, employment, and the exchange and consumption of goods, which are the material foundations of the liberty and welfare of all peoples; to the elimination of all forms of discriminatory treatment in international commerce, and to the reduction of tariffs and other trade barriers...
Page 453 - To give confidence to members by making the Fund's resources available to them under adequate safeguards, thus providing them with opportunity to correct maladjustments in their balance of payments without resorting to measures destructive of national or international prosperity.
Page 458 - ... apportion its existing and accruing supply of the scarce currency with due regard to the relative needs of Members, the general international economic situation, and any other pertinent considerations.
Page 390 - The par value of the currency of each member shall be expressed in terms of gold as a common denominator or in terms of the United States dollar of the weight and fineness in effect on July 1, 1944.
Page 219 - March 11, 1941, the terms and conditions thereof shall be such as not to burden commerce between the two countries, but to promote mutually advantageous economic relations between them and the betterment of world-wide relations.
Page 218 - August 14, 1941 by the President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Page 24 - ... transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued, under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under such Act, as amended, are extended to include any purchases of such notes and obligations.