GEORGE MEYER, 84, FATHER OF CAPITAL TIMES COLUMNIST, DEAD
George Meyer, 84, Father of Capital Times Columnist, Dead Veteran German News-paperman Dies Here Today George Meyer, 84, of 522 State St., a veteran German newspaperman in America, died early...
...it was reported in New York last week...
...George Meyer, 84, Father of Capital Times Columnist, Dead Veteran German News-paperman Dies Here Today George Meyer, 84, of 522 State St., a veteran German newspaperman in America, died early Monday at a local hospital after a short illness...
...28 gymnasiums, and 652 other recreational buildings...
...and have developed waterfronts, conservation areas, and labored on more than one-sixth of the streets, highways and roads of Wisconsin, P. D. Flanner, slate WPA administrator, said last week in a re port on a physical accomplishment survey by the WPA...
...Heine...
...system is the regional grouping of physical utility properties in Wisconsin and Minnesota into a single operating system...
...It was also reported in New York that the negotiations which led to the appointment of Mathews to the new post were conducted by Leo T. Crowley, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp...
...He received $10,000 a year on the SEC...
...Firehouses, armories, hospitals, stadiums, and grandstands, school playgrounds, swimming pools, ski Jumps, golf courses, and other projects were among those carried out by WPA workers...
...Neb., and Winona, Minn...
...Meyer retired in 1932, when the Milwaukee Herold stopped publication...
...will receive an annual salary of $25,000...
...12 auditoriums...
...Meyer came to the United States in 1885, settling first in Milwaukee, where he became editor of the old Germania, a German-language daily newspaper...
...Lincoln...
...New York reports stated...
...Meyer came to Madison to reside with his daughter, Mrs...
...Born in Bremen, Germany, on Apr...
...It is not the purpose of WPA in making this report to take credit for accomplishments," Flanner said, "since the project-s are really local government projects operated with WPA-paid workers...
...A former member of the Wisconsin public service commission...
...Meyer was the father of Ernest L. Meyer, columnist for the New York Post and The Progressive, and Mrs...
...For 40 years he served as editor of various Bnimder publications in Milwaukee...
...When he retired, Mr...
...WPA workers have built, repaired, or added to 530 schools, an average of nearly seven and one-half per county: 28 libraries...
...One of the immediate problems facing the Northern States Power Co...
...Achievements of State WPA Are Outlined In the four years since the program has been in operation, Wisconsin WPA workers have Improved 2.880 public buildings, 965 of them new...
...WPA completed 691 miles of river bank and shore improvement, built 312 new conservation, flood and erosion control dams, and constructed 14,800 feet of Jetties and breakwaters...
...and former Madison businessman who recently announced he will resign from the FDIC to become chief executive of Standard Gas and Electric Co., Northern States Power holding company...
...an Instructor in the university extension division at Milwaukee: four grandchildren, and two greatgrandchildren...
...The Herold wa» one of the many Brumder papers on which he had served as editor...
...Mathews will leave the SEC Apr...
...Project workers planted 12,531,000 trees on 53,332 acres of land, much of which was zoned as unsuitable for agriculture...
...Frieda Voigt...
...Else D Heine, librarian for The Capital Times...
...He also worked on German newspapers in Chicago, Denver, Dubuque, and Appleton...
...1856, Mr...
...Other survivors are a daughter, Mrs...
...Mathews Gets $25,000 Utility Salary, Report George C. Mathews, who resigned as member of the federal securities and exchange commission to become a vice president of Northern States Power Co...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 15
