A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II

by Murray N. Rothbard

final end of, 288

  transformed into RFC, 288–90

  War Industries Board, 280–82, 280n, 299

  Warburg, Paul Moritz, 215n, 234–54, 235n, 239n–40n, 265, 372n–73n, 448n

  central bank, leader in fight for, 239–54

  Jekyll Island retreat, 252

  Warburg, James P., 460, 464, 466

  Ward, Eber, 148

  Warren, George F., 455, 466

  Washington Post, 300n, 339

  Webster, Daniel, 83

  Weinberg, Sidney J., 300

  Weinstein, Allen, 158–59, 158n

  Welfare-warfare state, 179

  Welles, Sumner, 479

  Wells, Senator William H., 85

  Wertheim, Maurice, 303

  Wetmore, Charles W., 192

  Wheeler, Harry A., 255

  Wheeler, Burton K., 298

  Wheelock, Thomas, 242

  Whigs, 101–02, 114

  “free” banking advocates, 112

  in second party system, 171

  in third party system, 175

  White, Harry Dexter, 339n, 475, 480–81

  White Plan, 480–82

  White, Horace, 249

  Whitney, George, 321n

  Whitney, Richard, 312–13, 321, 321n, 326–28

  Wiggin, Albert H., 277, 287, 304, 307, 426n

  removal as Chase Bank CEO, 309–10, 312n

  Pecora’s assaults on, 312, 314–15

  Wilburn, Jean Alexander, 96, 97n

  Willcox, W.H., 221n

  Willey, Colonel F.V., 364

  Williams, John A., 148

  Williams, John H., 484

  Williams, John Skelton, 265, 372n–73n

  Willing, Thomas, 68

  Willis, Henry Parker, 195, 255, 255n, 257, 272, 371, 386, 416, 424, 438, 449

  bank expansion, opposed for wrong reasons, 317

  hard-money advocate, 304

  Journal of Commerce editor, 277n, 416n, 426, 449, 458

  opposition to Fed, 276n–77n, 277, 337, 342–43, 426

  “real bills” doctrine, 276n, 316

  Willkie, Wendell L., 330, 330n–31n

  Willoughby, William F., 221n

  Willson, A.E., 192

  Wilshire, H. Gaylord, 210n

  Wilson, Woodrow, 229n, 247n, 257, 265, 281–82, 310, 471

  Wilson administration, 193, 282, 311n, 322

  Winant, John G., 448, 483

  Wirt, William A., 454

  Wood, General Robert E., 298, 454

  Wood, Leonard, 227

  Wood, Stuart, 218

  Woodbury, Levi, 107n

  Woodin, William H., 302, 311n

  Woodward, C. Vann, 36

  World Economic Conference, 305–07, 432, 458–67, 477

  bombshell message, 307, 465–66, 479

  severe disagreements at, 465–66

  Wrigley, Philip K., 298, 454

  Wurlitzer, Rudolph, 298, 454

  Wyatt, Walter, 338

  Y

  Young, Arthur N., 233

  Young, Owen D., 287, 296, 448

  Young, Roy A., 271–78, 422, 425