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   Eugene Isaac Meyer (October 31, 1875 – July 17, 1959) was an American banker, businessman, financier, and newspaper publisher. Through his public career, he served as the 5th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933. Meyer published The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946, and the paper stayed in his family throughout the rest of the ...

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   Mar 26, 2024 · Eugene Meyer was an influential leader in American political and social life and publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946. Upon graduating from Yale University (1895), Meyer worked in various European cities for two years learning the banking business. Soon after his return he established.

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   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Eugene Meyer, (born Oct. 31, 1875, Los Angeles—died July 17, 1959, Mt. Kisco, N.Y., U.S.), influential leader in American political and social life and publisher of The Washington Post from 1933 to 1946.

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   How old was Eugene Meyer when he died?

   • Meyer died at age 83 on July 17, 1959 at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. where he had been under treatment for a heart ailment and cancer. Eugene Meyer Elementary School in Washington, D.C., was named in Meyer's honor in 1963.

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   Who was Katharine Meyer?

   • The daughter of the publisher Eugene Meyer and the educator Agnes Meyer, Katharine Meyer attended Vassar College from 1934 to 1936 and then transferred to the University of Chicago, graduating in 1938. After a year as a reporter for the San Francisco News, she joined the editorial staff of The Washington Post, which her father had bought in 1933.

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   What happened to Eugene Meyer Elementary School?

   • Eugene Meyer Elementary School in Washington, D.C., was named in Meyer's honor in 1963. The school closed in 2008, and the building has since been used as swing space by District of Columbia Public Schools . Notes ^ a b "Eugene Meyer Dies; Publisher, Banker".

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   Eugene Isaac Meyer (October 31, 1875 - July 17, 1959) was an American financier, public official, and publisher of the Washington Post newspaper. After acquiring the newspaper in 1933, Meyer transformed the failing daily into one of the country’s most prominent newspapers, eventually absorbing the Washington Times-Herald in 1954.

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   Summarize this article for a 10 year old. Eugene Isaac Meyer (October 31, 1875 – July 17, 1959) was an American banker, businessman, financier, and newspaper publisher. Through his public career, he served as the 5th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933.

6. www.washingtonpost.com › archive › politicsEugene Meyer Bought Post 50 Years Ago - The Washington Post

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   Jun 1, 1983 · Fifty years ago today, The Washington Post, then a distinguished wreck, was sold at bankruptcy for $825,000 to a financier who knew nothing of the newspaper business. The buyer was Eugene...

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   The subject files, 1929-1959, of investment banker, financier, public official, and newspaperman Eugene Meyer (1875-1959) relating to his tenure as fifth chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, 1930-1933, consist of correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, copies of congressional legislation, printed material, and other papers (2,134 ...

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   Eugene Meyer was born in 1875 in Los Angeles. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1895. He worked at Lazard Freres banking house in New York, and in 1901 bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. By 1917 he had made a personal fortune by focusing on investments in the copper, gold, automobile and chemical industries.