Word: meyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find a man to succeed Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board was no easy matter. President Roosevelt hunted' high & low, far & wide. Last week he made his selection-Eugene Robert ("Gene") Black, Governor of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank...
...right hand was Arthur Atwood Ballantine as Undersecretary and at his left James Henderson Douglas as Assistant Secretary. Francis Gloyd Await acted temporarily as Comptroller of the Currency. David Burnet continues as Commissioner of Internal Revenue and Walter Orr Woods as Treasurer of the U. S. Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board lay low until his successor could be found...
...Allied to reply and at the end of two months the secretary finally said that Allied saw no reason to change its ways. Then Frank Altschul, chairman of the Listing Committee (leading partner of the well-known private banking house of Lazard Frères with which Eugene Meyer, one of Allied Chemical's big stockholders, has old family connections), personally wrote Mr. Weber informing him that the Committee was going to put the whole question up to Allied's directors. Later Mr. Altschul was told that Allied's direc- tors had discussed the question and referred...
...when intelligence-testers began to impress the nation, Principal Persis K. Miller of Locust Point's public school asked Johns Hopkins' Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer to survey the community, a social back-water of Baltimore. Dr. Meyer's agents found 166 children in Locust Point who were sufficiently subnormal to need special training. Some were considered ''liable to recruit the ranks of the vagrants, the alcoholics, the prostitutes, and the delinquents." Others would be "drifting along at the lowest social level." All would be in one way or another detrimental to society...
Seventeen years later Principal Miller and Dr. Meyer had Dr. Ruth Eldred Fairbank, Johns Hopkins' psychiatrist, see what had become of Locust Point's morons of 1914. What she found she reported last week in Mental Hygiene. She found most of them still living in the neighborhood. All but two of the girls were married. Only five cases of illegitimacy and five cases of prostitution occurred during the 17 years. Three-fourths of the subnormals are supporting themselves. One became a Pro- hibition agent. One "nitwit," who can write only his name, progressed to an inspector...