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3 days ago · In 1946, when Washington Post publisher Eugene Meyer was named the first president of the World Bank, he passed the position of publisher to Graham.When Meyer left the World Bank later that year, he took the title of chairman of the board of the Washington Post Company, leaving Graham as publisher.
3 days ago · The Washington Post (WaPo), headquartered in Washington, D.C., was founded in 1877 by Stilson Hutchins. He was a journalist, publisher, and passionate Democrat who later became a Missouri state representative for the Democratic Party and operated The Post until 1889. Republican financier Eugene Meyer bought The Washington Post in 1946.
3 days ago · Eugene Meyer, Graham's maternal grandfather, bought The Washington Post at a bankruptcy sale in 1933. Graham's father Philip was publisher of The Washington Post from 1946 until 1961, and president of the Washington Post Company from 1947 until his death in 1963.
Jul 30, 2024 · In turn, “it’s not clear whether we would have existed without Olin’s support,” Eugene Meyer, the society’s president and co-founder, told The New York Times when the foundation closed ...
Jul 25, 2024 · Eugene Meyer papers, 1864-1970. Manuscript Division Catalog Record Finding Aid [PDF, 457 KB] During World War I and for a few years after Meyer was head of the War ...
Aug 1, 2024 · If American newspapers could be puritanical — The Post’s Eugene Meyer once decreed that “the paper shall observe the decencies that are obligatory upon a private gentleman” — British newspapers could be Rabelaisian. They acknowledged the messiness of the human condition.
Jul 23, 2024 · In a review for the Wall Street Journal, Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Culture at Bard College Richard Aldous calls James Graham Wilson’s America’s Cold War Warrior on the life and legacy of statesman Paul Nitze “a brilliant political biography, elegantly written, rich in archival material.” Nitze was an expert on military power and strategic arms and served as ...
