Word: meyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eugene Meyer took him to Washington, and in the scrambled days of Mr. Hoover's exit and Mr. Roosevelt's advent, alert young Lawyer Corcoran made himself extremely useful as a personnel man to staff the new administrative agencies with legal talent. For this he was equipped by having run a placement bureau for Harvard Law graduates. Washington became full, and still is, of his "boys," who not only get work done the way he wants it but constitute an argus-eyed personal intelligence service. He particularly delights in drafting able sons of Tory fathers and infecting them...
Four years ago Manhattan's spunky 5 ft. 4 in. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia began bucking Postmaster General Jim Farley, Mayor Meyer Ellenstein of Newark...
...year-old Duchess of Roxburghe, a granddaughter of the late great Liberal Prime Minister, Lord Rosebery. Dr. Dirksen: "I suppose you get your fine black eyes from your Scottish ancestry?" The Duchess: "No, Your Excellency, I think it must be my Jewish ancestry. One of my grandfathers was Baron Meyer de Rothschild...
...Eugene Meyer has a fortune conservatively estimated, at $30,000,000 and a capacity for surrounding himself with able men. From The Brookings Institution, he hired an editor, Felix Morley (brother of Christopher), who soon won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. To give the paper zip, he hired a Middle-Westerner as managing editor, Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones. The Post soon developed a set of features good enough to be syndicated. Brightest among them are the arresting cartoons of 28-year-old Gene Elderman...
...five years, the Post doubled its circulation (now 112,000), more than doubled its advertising lineage. By last year, its $1,000,000 annual losses had been reduced to $400,000. But Publisher Meyer was having too good a time with his newspaper to be fazed by such deficits. Last week, he celebrated the anniversary of his entry into the Fourth Estate by announcing the acquisition of the foreign news service and 14 features from the New York Herald Tribune, including Walter Lippmann, Dorothy Thompson, Mark Sullivan, Book Reviewer Lewis Garnett, Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr., Sports Columnist Richards Vidmer...