I wonder how many folks would actually recognize the significance - TopicsExpress

I wonder how many folks would actually recognize the significance of this paragraph .... ??? "Then Eugene Meyer, a California investor and member of the Federal Reserve, took the reins in the midst of the Depression, burnishing the paper’s reputation and tripling its circulation before handing control in the 1940s to son-in-law, Philip L. Graham, a brilliant, brooding and mercurial figure who killed himself with a shotgun at his Virginia farm in 1963."