Executor Chartered 1822 Trustee The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company Nos. 16, 18, 20 & 22 William Street Branch Office, 475 Fifth Avenue LONDON, 15 Cockspur St., S. W.; 26 Old Broad Street, E C. A Monthly Magazine devoted to TRUST COMPANY, BANKING AND FINANCIAL Interests of the United States Entered at the New York Post Office as Second Class Mail Matter Frontispiece-Prime Ministers and Spokesmen of the Leading Warring Powers WIELDING THE SCEPTRE IN WORLD FINANCE New Spirit and Romance of American Business "Dollar Diplomacy" and Protection of American Enterprise Triumphal Progress of "Dollar Credits" The Amazing Business Record of 1916 Clouding the Issue in "Pfg. K, Section 11" Litigation Forcing State Institutions to Join Federal System Federal Reserve Amendments and Control of Gold ACTUAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Hon. W. P. G. Harding, Governor Federal Reserve Board. RESERVE REQUIREMENTS AND EXPANSION OF BANK CREDITS THE KEYNOTE OF TRUST COMPANY SUCCESS Uzal H. McCarter, President Fidelity Trust Company of Newark, N. J., and President Trust Dr. Edward Ewing Pratt, Chief of Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Washington, D. C. SOLUTION OF CHECK COLLECTION PROBLEM 19 Jerome Thralls, Secretary Clearing House Section and Committee of Twenty-five. FUNDAMENTAL DEFECTS Of federal farm loan act DUTIES OF TRUSTEE AND MANAGEMENT OF TRUST ESTATE Judge Arthur Peter, Trust Counselor, Fidelity and Columbia Trust Company, Louisville, Ky. 53 55 CO-OPERATION BETWEEN TRUST COMPANIES AND LEGAL PROFESSION EQUITABLE system of TAXATION OF BANKS AND TRUST COMPANIES Fred Rogers Fairchild, Professor of Political Economy, Yale University. CALL LOAN RATE AND REAL STANDARD OF MONEY VALUE DUTIES OF TRUST COMPANY "SERVICE EXPERT" W. M. Boileau, Service Expert Spokane and Eastern Trust Company, Spokane, Wash. HEALTH RULES FOR BANK AND TRUST COMPANY STAFFS Professor Eugene Lyman Fisk, Medical Director Life Extension Institute, Inc., New York. LEGAL DECISIONS AND DISCUSSION Effect of Resignation of Joint Executor. Loss Through Individual Trusteeship. Digest of the Latest Federal Income Tax Rules Prodigious Growth of National Banking System FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE OF THE SOUTH William Hurd Hillyer, Atlanta, Ga. YEAR OF Remarkable BUSINESS EXPANSION IN BALTIMORE Maurice H. Grape, Vice President Union Trust Company, Baltimore. EARNINGS AND GROWTH OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANIES IN 1916 The Real Estate Title Insurance and Trust Company of Philadelphia 523 CHESTNUT STREET, Across from Independence Hall THE OLDEST TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY IN THE WORLD Capital (full paid) $1,000,000 Surplus and Undivided Profits (earned) $1,800,000 Incorporated in 1876, this Company has issued over 200,000 policies of title insurance and has accumulated information which enables it to execute, work with unequaled accuracy and promptness. |