The Freedmen's Savings Bank

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Identifikator:: 175265076X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-129631

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Author:: Fleming, Walter Lynwood http://d-nb.info/gnd/120660560X

Title:: The Freedmen's Savings Bank

Place of publication:: Chapel Hill

Publisher:: Univ. of North Carolina Press

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: x, 170 S.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter VII. The work of the commissioners

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THE WORK OF COMMISSIONERS 103 Leipold, an exceedingly unpleasant though very efficient person, was soon at loggerheads with the other commissioners because they would not work, and for other personal reasons. DISAGREEMENTS AMONG THE COMMISSIONERS Purvis drew his salary to the last for being a Negro member, and Creswell drew his for being a friend of the Negroes. Leipold, who was cer- tainly not a friend of the Negroes, treated rudely all of them who had business with the commis- sioners. Purvis, who had all the American Negro’s dislike of foreigners, complained that Leipold was a lowborn, bad-mannered, foreign fortune hunter, whose eccentricities amounted almost to craziness, but both Purvis and Creswell testified that their disagreeable colleague was an efficient business man.* The squabbles among the commissioners soon attracted the attention of the public. Some were as interesting and about as dignified as a dog fight. Leipold objected to being made the only burden bearer, but when he suggested that the other members do some of the work or pay for assistants to do it, the latter were quite indig- nant. Creswell recalled that when he was nomi- nated the trustees told him: “General, we don’t want your time, we want your name.” “Mr. Leipold,” Creswell said, “was to have charge of the details and Mr. Purvis and myself were to assist in all matters of advice and generally in the conduct of affairs.” When Leipold com- plained later that he had been “the pack horse ¢ Bruce Report, pp. 73-89, 127, 128, 187, 239, and report of the committee: Douglas DD ps 77.

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