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Banking Reform By Statute, Robert G. Rodkey May 1934

Banking Reform By Statute, Robert G. Rodkey

Michigan Law Review

The lamentable failure of our banking system to function satisfactorily in the performance of its duties to the public raises at the outset two kinds of questions. Is there something fundamentally unsound about the structure of our banking machinery or does the trouble reside merely in a lack of understanding on the part of bankers of the proper management of the detailed activities in which banks necessarily engage? Or may the unsatisfactory result be ascribed to a combination of these two alternatives? The position taken in this paper is that the structure of our banking system is inherently unsound and …


Failed Banks, Collection Items, And Trust Preferences, George Gleason Bogert Mar 1931

Failed Banks, Collection Items, And Trust Preferences, George Gleason Bogert

Michigan Law Review

About 1,200 banks failed in the United States during the year 1930, and failures for the years 1921-1929 averaged over 600 a year. Each of these bank failures doubtless involved several problems regarding collection items. In each case it was almost inevitable that there should be found among the assets in the hands of the defunct bank several items held for collection but not yet collected, and also that a number of items should have been collected but no effective remittance made on account of such collection. There thus arose a series of controversies between the banks or individuals which …