The banking crisis of 1933 / / Susan Esfabrook Kennedy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460703403321
• Autore: Kennedy Susan Estabrook
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , 1973; ©1973
• ISBN: 0-8131-6330-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 332.1/0973
• Soggetti: Banks and banking - United States; Banking law - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Based on the author's thesis, Columbia University.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Chapter; Acknowledgments; I. PROSPERITY AND DEPRESSION; II. HOOVER'S SOLUTIONS; III. LECTION AND INTERREGNUM; IV. MICHIGAN; V. INVESTIGATION; VI. EXIT HOOVER; VII. ENTER ROOSEVELT; VIII. REOPENING; IX. THE BANKING ACT OF 1933; X. CONCLUSION; Selected Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: On March 6, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, less than forty-eight hours after becoming president, ordered the suspension of all banking facilities in the United States. How the nation had reached such a desperate situation and how it responded to the banking ""holiday"" are examined in this book, the first full-length study of the crisis.Although the 1920's had witnessed a wave of bank failures, the situation worsened after the 1929 stock market crash, and by the winter of 1932-1933, complete banking collapse threatened much of the nation. President Hoover's stopgap measures proved totally inadequate