C

Cannan, Edwin, 366n

Capeadores, 415, 420

Capital formation, 165–69

Carey, Henry C., 148–49, 149n

Cartelization

of agriculture, 285, 334–34

of banking industry, 36, 186, 318, 322, 368, 372

of industry, 264, 277, 281, 299

of Wall Street, 296, 306, 318, 320, 327–28

Carver, Thomas Nixon, 236, 246

Catchings, Waddill, 273, 303

Central banks. See Banks

Census of 1890, 166

Chamberlain, Austen, 364n, 365, 367n

Chapman, Sidney, 211, 391

Charles I, 56–57

Chase, Salmon P., 123–26, 126n, 133–37, 143, 152

Chase, Stuart, 335

Cheves, Langdon, 94

Chicago School, 31

Chicago Times-Herald, 191

Chicago Tribune, 204, 414, 445

Churchill, Winston, 365–67, 367n

Citizens’ Reconstruction Organization (CRO), 296

Claflin, John, 235–36

Clark, John Bates, 214, 243, 416, 416n, 447

Clark, Spencer, 126n

Clayton, William L. (Will), 346–47, 478, 485–86

Cleveland, Grover, 168–69, 175–76, 178

Cline, Virgil P., 198

Cochran, Thomas, 267, 267n, 379

Cockayne, Brien, 360

Code of Fair Competition, 328–29n

Cohen, Benjamin V., 322, 330

Coinage Act

of 1792, 65, 65n, 104

of 1834, 104–06, 106n, 110–11

Collamer, Jacob, 126n

Collet, Mark W., 373

Colt, S. Sloan, 331

Colwell, Stephen, 148

Commercial and Financial Chronicle,278, 278n, 426

Commission on International Exchange (CIE), 296

Committee for Constitutional Government, 454

Committee for the Nation to Rebuild Prices and Purchasing Power, 298, 303, 305, 307–08, 454–56

Committee on Currency and Foreign Exchanges, 359See alsoCunliffe Committee

Committee on Legislative Programs, 338

Conant, Charles A., 196–97, 199–200n, 201, 204, 208–14, 218, 221, 235, 243, 246, 248, 251, 389

Conant plan, 222–26

“conants,” 224

currency reforms, 232–33

failure in Cuba and China, 226–29

surplus capital, theory of, 210–16, 222–23, 230–32

Conference of Governors, 273

Committee for Constitutional Government, 454

Commonwealth and Southern Corporation, 330

Consolidated Gas Company of New York, 207

Continental Congress, 59, 61

Continentals, 59–60, 72

not worth a, 60

Converse, Edmund C., 192

Cooke, Henry, 133–35, 145

Cooke, Jay

beginnings, 132–35

House of Cooke, 133–35, 145–47, 147n, 156

crash of, 156

enormous political influence of, 134, 145–47, 156

expansion of, 156

master of public relations and mass propaganda, 134, 145–47

monopoly underwriter of government bonds, 134

national banking system, force behind, 134–35, 145, 156

Cooksey, George, 290

Coolidge, Calvin, 266–69, 311, 379–80, 420–22

Coolidge, T. Jefferson, 266, 335, 379

Cord, E.L., 298, 454

Corn Belt Advisory Committee, 285

Coughlin, Father Charles E., 460

Council of Foreign Relations (CFR), 346–47, 432

Counterfeiting, 130n

Coup de whiskey, 413, 445

Covington, J. Harry, 306

Cox, James M., 464

Crane, W. Murray, 267, 379

Credit expansion

controlled by large national banks, 238

increased number of banks and, 70

stock prices and, 418See alsoInflation; Banks

Cromwell, James H.R., 457

Crowley, Leo T., 339

Cumberland, William W., 233

Cunliffe, Walter, 359, 373

Cunliffe Committee, 359–60, 362, 365

Currency. See Money; Dollar

Currency Report, 237

Currie, Lauchlin, 332, 335–36, 338–39

Customs-duties scheme, 124

Czarist Russia, 212