Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Look into Gas." After his year with Frankfurter, Graham saw the New Deal fading into the defense effort. He followed, landing with one foot in the Lend-Lease Administration and the other in the Office for Emergency Management. As an ''expediter,'' Graham bowled through bottlenecks and red tape with highhanded ease, won kudos for his role in boosting high octane gas output and lending $8 billion in V-Loans to get defense plants humming. When he lacked the right to check on lagging gasoline procurement, he had OEM's Chief Wayne Coy put a slip...
...July 1942 Graham enlisted in the Army Air Forces as a private-but he went right on operating in uniform. He wound up as an intelligence officer on the staff of Far Eastern Air Commander General George C. Kenney. Learning that General Douglas MacArthur's staff was holding out information on Kenney, he set up a short-cut system of getting it to the air general. When Kenney, on a mission to Washington for MacArthur, was barred by the Pentagon from seeing Roosevelt, Graham fixed up a White House visit out of channels...
After the war (he was discharged as a major), Graham felt tempted to return to Florida and enter politics. He also felt the pull of Washington-and an offer from aging Post Publisher Meyer, whose only son, Dr. Eugene Meyer III, now 40, had staked out an interest in medicine. Graham brooded, finally chose Washington. The publisher pondered whether to break Graham in at the bottom, then decided to skip the red tape. On Jan. 1, 1946 he went to work as associate publisher. Six months later, Graham became publisher of the Washington Post...
...first decade alone, Publisher Meyer lost $5,000,000. The hard fact was that Washington, with one-quarter the population of Chicago, had just as many papers. The Post's wobbly economic base was the toughest problem inherited by Publisher Phil Graham when Meyer stepped up to become chairman of the board...
...Graham and Meyer thought they had the solution: a chance to buy the gaudy but prosperous opposition, the Times-Herald, a year after Publisher Cissy Patterson's death. Instead, Cissy's seven heirs sold out to her cousin, Colonel Bertie McCormick of the Chicago Tribune. Graham saw no hope of competing from the Post's ramshackle old plant. So Meyer put up another $6,000,000 to build a new Post building (on L Street), complete with color presses and air conditioning...