Item No: #306600 The Effect of Low Silver: Hearings before the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, House of Representatives, Seventy-second Congress, first session, on H. Res. 72, a resolution to investigate the cause and effect of the present depressed value of silver. March 7 to 11, 1932, inclusive. Weights Committee on Coinage, United States House of Representatives Measures.

The Effect of Low Silver: Hearings before the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, House of Representatives, Seventy-second Congress, first session, on H. Res. 72, a resolution to investigate the cause and effect of the present depressed value of silver. March 7 to 11, 1932, inclusive.

Notes: 159, [1] pages. Printed front cover; blank rear cover. Stapled signatures; no separate covers, as issued.

Transcripts of hearings on the falling price of silver (which would hit a record low of 25 cents per ounce by the end of the year, resulting in Roosevelt's nationalization of silver and a federal redeption of silver at 50 cents per ounce. Several people who testified at these hearings discussed the falling Chinese demand for silver as part of the international problem during the Great Depression.

Edition + Condition: Very good. Staples a bit rusted.

Publication: Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1932.

Item No: #306600

Price: $30