Postal savings

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Identifikator:: 869930397

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-49420

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Kemmerer, Edwin Walter http://d-nb.info/gnd/101827717

Title:: Postal savings

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Humphrey Milford

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 176 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter I - The movement for establishment of a postal savings system in the United States

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/ 1 POSTAL SAVINGS CHAPTER I The Movement For Establishment of a Postal Savings System in the United States On June 25, 1910, the bill creating the United States postal savings system was signed by Presi dent Taft. Thus after nearly forty years of dis cussion, occasionally rising to heights of agita tion, as during the administrations of Post masters-General Creswell, Wanamaker and Meyer; after eight Postmasters-General had recommended the establishment of postal sav ings banks 1 and ten times as many bills had been introduced into Congress for this purpose, 2 the United States found itself in line with most of 1 The recommendations of Postmasters-General from 1871 to the present time, together with other valuable material illustrating the movement for postal savings banks in the United States, are summarized in a speech in the House of Representatives by George Edmond Foss of Massachusetts. Cong. Rec., June 20, 1910, pp. 8709 et seq. 2 For a list of bills, see Report No. 1445, H. R., 61 Cong., 2 Sess. (June 7, 1910), pp. 63-66.

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