People: WWII and After

President Harry Truman meets with George Marshall, Economic Cooperation Administration chief Paul Hoffman, and ECA roving ambassador W. Averell Harriman to discuss the Marshall Plan.

The Federal Reserve pegged interest rates at a low level during World War II in order to facilitate the financing of government debt and enforced that peg for six years after the war’s end.

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Robert R. Gilbert

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
1939 - 1953

George H. Hamilton

Governor
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
1932 - 1941

Delos C. Johns

President
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
1951 - 1962

Hugh Leach

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
1936 - 1961

H. Gavin Leedy

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
1941 - 1961

William McChesney Martin Sr.

President
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
1929 - 1941

William S. McLarin Jr.

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
1941 - 1951

William W. Paddock

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
1942 - 1944

Robert S. Parker

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
1939 - 1941

John N. Peyton

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
1933 - 1952

Oliver S. Powell

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
1952 - 1957

George J. Schaller

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
1934 - 1941

John S. Sinclair

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
1936 - 1941

Allan Sproul

President
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
1941 - 1956

Laurence F. Whittemore

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
1946 - 1948

Alfred H. Williams

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
1941 - 1958

Clifford S. Young

President
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
1941 - 1956

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