Oral history interview with Eugene Meyer, 1953

Biographical Note

Financier, newspaper executive

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education; early financial operations; farm credit during the 1920s; Federal Farm Loan Bureau; Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Federal Reserve System during the banking crisis, 1933; WASHINGTON POST, 1933-1953; World Bank and International Monetary Fund; impressions of Presidents Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and many other political and financial figures

Subjects

• Albertson, Dean, 1920- interviewer.
• Capitalists and financiers--Interviews.
• International Monetary Fund.
• Interviews.
• Journalism.
• Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst, 1887-1970.
• Meyer, Eugene, 1875-1959--Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Publishers and publishing--Interviews.
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• Washington post
• World Bank.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975