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  • to come over when Willie Brandt was there for luncheon . I can still remember-­ I was going through the receiving line, and he said, "Well, Mr . Brandt, I want you to meet my Postmaster General," and he kind of laughed, and I knew he was thinking about his
  • Belen, Frederick C. (Frederick Christopher), 1913-
  • been picked up Gi b Crockett suggested that I ca 11 Willi e Day Taylor and get a copy of it. 50 I called her and went in to tell Senator Russell about the fact that I'd gone to this trouble to try to get him a copy for his collection. He said
  • that, which undoubtedly were very modern in 1913 when the department was established, but it looks kind of funny nowadays . So we had, oh, I guess, about 400 designs submitted to the judges, and they came up with a design which is, as you know, called
  • relate the amount of currency that we had outstanding in the United States to the gold that we possessed. Originally, when the Federal Reserve Act was enacted back in 1913, they put currency and bank deposits-you had to keep a certain gold reserve
  • it to be. The man from the street, I didn't think would come to see this, even though it was an historic occasion, that maybe here was the making of a brand new state, the first since 1913. So I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • background briefly, leaving out a number of things, I'm afraid. You were born in 1913 in Sacramento; bachelor's degree from Cal Tech in 1938. t,,: No, University of California. B: And a Ph.D.in '42. M: Yes, also Berkeley. B: And you taught
  • : My father, Hugo Pinto Reiss, was a Brazilian diplomat. He went to China in 1913, where he met my mother, whose maiden name was Mary Murphy. She came from Carmel, California, and she was taken to China when she graduated from the convent