Eugene Meyer

"One day in 1933, Eugene L. Meyer, who was talking about retiring after making millions on Wall Street and serving 13 years as a super‐bureaucrat in Washington, walked down the front hall stairway of his home and spotted dust on the banister, 'This house is not properly run,' he snapped at his wife. 'You'd better go buy The Washington Post,' snapped back Agnes Meyer, a woman who knew her husband wasn't the retiring type.

He did buy the newspaper within a year... A patriotic capitalist, he fo...