Rapid fire questions cause Federal Reserve Chairman to have headache. Washington, D.C., March 23. Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board undertook to answer the Questions fired at him by Walter Trent, Director of the Rocky Mountain Metal Foundation. Trent's questions came so fast that Accles was hard put to answer them. Here he paused to rub his head during the questioning he was put through at the meeting of the Special Silver Committee.