Correspondence with Philip Cortney and others following an address by Marriner S. Eccles at the 17th Biennial Congress of the Cooperative League of the U.S.A., Chicago, October 12, 1950

Scans of letters to and from Federal Reserve member Marriner S. Eccles regarding an extemporaneous address at the 17th Biennial Congress of the Cooperative League of the U.S.A. in Chicago on 12 October 1950. Includes a series of exchanges between Eccles and entrepreneur Philip Cortney of New York, including related correspondence between Philip Cortney, Earl Bunting of the National Association of Manufacturers, J. Howard Pew of Philadephia, and others, which Cortney shared with Eccles. Also a printed speech by Cortney entitled "Inflation or Freedom?" and delivered at the Union League Club of Chicago on 28 September 1950; a printed essay (20 pages) entitled "Tax liability of cooperatives" published by the Bureau of Research of the Commerce and Industry Association of New York; and a "Critique of correspondence between Philip Cortney, Earl Bunting and J. Howard Pew" written by "Miss Harris," Federal Reserve employee.