W

Wade, Festus J., 244

Wages, 51, 132, 161–62, 361, 367, 403–05, 426, 457

Wall Street Journal, 242, 244, 248–49

Wallace, Henry C., 285

Wallace, Henry Agard, 448

Wallace’s Farmer, 448

War

debt holders benefitted, 84

finance and, 73

monetizing debt, financing thru, 351

War(s)

Civil War, 122

economic impact of, 130–31

impact on U.S. banking system, 122, 144, 147–48, 153

French and Indian War, 54

King George’s War, 54

of 1812, 72–73, 75, 84, 92, 122

of 1898, theory of imperialism, 211

Revolutionary War finance, 59–62

Spanish-American War, 11, 211–12, 216, 220–21, 389

World War I, 227, 245, 270–71, 279–84, 290, 299, 311, 346, 351, 356–58, 371, 384, 407, 410–11, 446

World War II, 475, 478

War collectivism, 280–81

War Finance Corporation (WFC), 280–86, 288–90

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