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Community Visionary:
Banker and lawyer Thomas Howard Duckett, from 1915 to 1965, guided the Silver Spring National Bank through its subsequent mergers, and through Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1933 "Bank Holiday" during the Great Depression, and World War II staff shortages, with the implementation of "Woman Power," Duckett, whose law offices were on the top floor of the bank, played seminal roles the establishment of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission in 1918 and the Maryland National Capital Park & Planning Commission in 1927. |