Word: meyers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Meyer Hirsch tells the story of his life. First and foremost he was a Jew. Later he was a professional Jew-the Jew in politics. On a keen December evening "in ramshackle New York during the sprawling awkward age of its growth," Meyer, only child of sweatshop workers, grandson of a horse thief, returns from cheder (Hebrew school) to the "two little dark rooms in a rear house, kerosene lamps, water from the yard pump, toilet in back yard . . not even enough crockery or eating things," occupied by his parents and maternal uncle, Philip Gold. Nine years...
Educated at the City College, Meyer is to be a lawyer. He shuns the Ludlow Street Gang, which has grown and taken on a definite character. "A nest of thieves." But its members were such stuff as clients are made of and he maintains friendly relations, keeps in touch with their secrets, though seldom seen by them. Boolkie, gang leader, "said it will be a great thing for the gang to have its own mouthpiece...
...Administration's plans to help the wheat farmers proceeded on two fronts. Eugene Meyer, Jr., and former Congressman Frank W. Mondell, Director of the War Finance Corporation, set out for the Northwest to assist the farmers in forming cooperative marketing associations. Former Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois was elected chairman of a committee to aid them in this effort...
...Eugene Meyer, Jr., is a banker who during the War served as advisor to the War Industries Board and on the Council for National Defense. In April, 1919, President Wilson appointed him a Director of the War Finance Corporation. A year later he became Managing Director, and at the expiration of his four-year term in 1921, Mr. Harding reappointed...
...Significance. In so far as Mr. Meyer's plan, if put into practice, will make for more orderly marketing of the wheat crop and prevent dumping on markets where there is small demand, it will aid the farmer. It cannot, however, increase prices by creating a demand where there is none nor reduce the high cost of production as compared to market prices...