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Railroads, 70, 203–04, 210, 286, 297–300, 319, 331, 336

Plumb Plan, 203

Railway Labor Act of 1926, 204

Ramseyer, Christian, 309

Rand, James H., Jr., 175, 309

Ratner, Sidney, 256, 287

Recession, See Depression

Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 219, 276, 285, 295–96, 298–01, 307, 313, 315, 317, 322

Red Cross, 231–32, 271

Rediscount rate, 104–05, 118, 120–24, 137, 139, 156, 161, 165, 215, 240, 262

penalty rate, 118–19, 160see alsoFederal Reserve System

Reed, Clyde M., 231

Reed, Harold L., 134, 158, 251

Reeve, Joseph E., 294

Reichsbank, 260

Relief, See Direct relief

Reno, Milo, 235

Republican Party, 189

Reserves, See Banking

Revenue Act of 1932, 286

Reynolds, Jackson E., 240

Richberg, Donald R., 204, 252, 311

Rist, Charles, 144–45, 154–55, 171, 175

Ritchie, Albert C., 327

Robbins, Lionel, 85, 131, 143, 146

Robertson, Sir Dennis H., 38, 173, 176

Robey, Ralph West, 125, 167

Robins, Mrs. Raymond, 197

Robinson, Edgar E., 228

Robinson, Joseph, 275, 296

Robinson, Leland Rex, 316

Robinson, Henry Morton, 163

Rockefeller Foundation, 264

Rogers, James Harvey, 174, 177, 311

Rohlfing, Charles C., 319

Roosevelt, Archibald R., 290

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 186, 189, 195, 217, 234, 266, 280–81, 290, 294, 300, 318, 324, 328–30

Root, Elihu, 175, 290

Rorty, Malcolm C., 174, 294, 310

Rosenwald, Julius, 189, 197, 210, 294

Rosenwald, Lessing J., 309

Rothschild, Louis, 175

Rothschild of Vienna, 257–58

Rovensky, John E., 175

Rumely, Edward A., 309

Ruml, Beardsley, 264

Russia, 231

Ryan, John A., 197, 251, 253, 313