As Edward Mason and Robert Asher describe in “The World Bank Since Bretton Woods” it was achallenge to find a president who would be acceptable to Washington, to Wall Street, and to the rest of the world. Several wellknown persons including Lewis Douglas, a director of the General Motors Corporation, declined the presidency of the Bank. The nomination of Eugene Meyer as President of the World Bank by the Executive Directors on June 4, 1946, ended...
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The Presidency of Eugene Meyer
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world war i