Word: meyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contributions have already been made by Winthrop Ames '95, Thomas Lamont '92, and Mrs. Eugene Meyer; work on the project will begin as soon as more funds are available. A. R. Lovejoy, director of the School of the Drama, and A. P. Segal have drawn plans for a curtainless fore stage and removable seating sections which can be taken out of the main hall when it is necessary for the Naval Science Students to utilize the building for purposes of drill. Aside from the construction in the main hall the remaining space in the building will be remodeled with permanent...
...special Cabinet Commission to "formulate . . . plans continuing and strengthening the organization of Federal activities for employment during the winter." Its members: Secretary of Commerce Lamont (chairman), Secretary of Labor Davis, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, Secretary of War Hurley, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Federal Reserve Board Governor Meyer...
...Ambassador to Cuba Harry Frank Guggenheim, brother of Simon Guggenheim, onetime Senator from Colorado and three other potent financiers (Murry, Solomon R. and William); after a short illness, of heart failure, at his home in Port Washington, L. I. He was second of the seven sons of the late Meyer Guggenheim who emigrated from Switzerland as a boy, made lace in Philadelphia, later built up one of the greatest metal trusts in the world (American Smelting & Refining Co.). Constant aide in his father's metal projects was Daniel. Early he went to Pueblo, dinky distributing town of the southern Colorado...
Born of wealthy parents in Los Angeles 55 years ago, Mr. Meyer was graduated from Yale (1895), studied banking and finance abroad for two years, set himself up in Wall Street in 1901 as Eugene Meyer Jr. & Co. He prospered not by playing hunches but by carefully analyzing companies in which he was about to invest. Once he explained his success thus: "You just go to New York and take an interest in things. You just look around." In 16 years Mr. Meyer had made all the money he wanted and more. When War came in 1917 he was only...
...April 1929 Mr. Meyer resigned from Government service, loitered expectantly about Washington where he had a large house on Meridian Heights, just off 16th Street. He and his wife, who was the classically beautiful Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, had become an integral part of the capital's society. Their entertainments were lavish compared to the stylelessness of other Washington parties. Just before her husband's retirement Mrs. Meyer had unsuccessfully attempted to restore social peace between Mrs. Dolly Gann and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth at an elaborate garden fête (TIME...