Address before the annual Conference of Mayors at Washington, D. C., Tuesday, January 13, 1942

Typescript (18 pages) of a speech given by Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the annual Conference of Mayors held at Washington, D.C., on January 13, 1942. Includes a list of recipients of copies of the speech, a list of attendees at the meeting, and correspondence related to the meeting. The conference's planned theme was "Defense and the Future," looking toward planning for postwar conditions in the cities, but before the event, the bombing of Pearl Harbor led Eccles to concentrate on the need to support the war effort.