Word: meyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...List? But Prospective Groom McCloy was well aware that, among knowing Washingtonians, young Mr. Collado's increasing fondness for having his own way was generally looked upon as one of the chief reasons why Publisher-Banker Eugene Meyer quit the presidency two months ago. With backing from the National Advisory Council, the Government agency set up to watch over the big U.S. investment in the Bank (nearly 35% of its stock), Collado apparently felt that he was strong enough to get what he wanted-even if the president wanted something else. One thing Meyer especially feared was that...
There, as refugees, come Willy Wiede-meyer, old friend of Adolf Hitler, and his wife and daughters. Fat Willy, a character who is in some ways a dead ringer for "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, plans to sell his inside story of the Hitler household to the U.S. occupation authorities. Price: immunity for himself and family. But Willy falls into the hands of a cynical U.S. war correspondent posing as a captain, who wants the story but has no power to save Willy. Worse, a gang of fanatical SS men, still at large, moves into the valley and goes gunning for Willy...
...Meyer Berger found George Teese, a New York Central engineer who owns a 1937 Packard, at home in Harmon on Hudson, N. Y.: "George and his wife, Rita, have a centrally heated, spotless, well-furnished six-room apartment. The Teeses don't save much . . . with prices as they are, but they live well ... a roast every day since the meat shortage ended. This year George has averaged about $600 a month. 'It's a strain, usually 16 hours a day, but a man would be a fool or a loafer not to get it while...
...other Bretton Woods twin, the World Bank, was not growing up to be such a credit to its founders. It was beginning to be regarded as almost a wayward child. There was still no taker for the $30,000-a-year job (tax free) which President Eugene Meyer resigned. And the Bank itself, with an assist from Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, bungled the announcement of another resignation. As a matter of courtesy, Vice President Harold D. Smith thought he ought to hand in his resignation, let the new president keep him or name a new vice president...
...anyone want a job that paid $30,000 a year, tax free? Last week the World Bank was still shopping around for someone to take the place of retiring President Eugene Meyer. The job was offered to Graham Towers, governor of the Bank of Canada. He turned it down. At one time or another, the job has been turned down by Navy Secretary James V. Forrestal, Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton, former Budget Director Lewis Douglas. (The bank denied an Associated Press story that Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriman had also been offered the job.) Unless a head...