Show i With Meyer Gone Kingfish Loses Favorite Target By HERBERT PLUMMER IER WASHINGTON April Aprill 19 The 10 The de dc- cislon of Eugene Meyer to resign a as as governor of the federal reserve board and return to private priva business may have at least one Immediate effect in inthe inthe inthe the capital Huey Long of Louisiana the self self- styled kingfish will vill b be j rob robbed d o of one of his favorite topics on which to m make speeches in the senate Almost since Longs Long's coming to the senate many of the colorful Louisiana senators senator's bitterest attacks have had bad Eugene Meyer as a central theme Senator Hucy Huey could never ge gemore get more worked up or storm more vehemently ve ye- than on these occasions He accused Meyer of being responsible for or a great many of ot the country's financial ills He kept it up to the very last The day before Meyers Meyer's resignation was officially announced he took the floor to attack him Whether Meyer himself ever commented com corn on these attacks by Long or what he thought about them outsiders ers never knew He is not the kind of man who would say Actually although Meyer since as asar asfar asfar far ar back as 1917 has been an important tant figure in the official life lile of the c capital capita few men have o occupied the positions he has in those years Jears who have lave h had ld as little known about them personally Those familiar with the official haunts of Washington are able to recognize the broad shouldered bald bespectacled man when he visits captol cap cap- itol tol hill hUl to appear before a congressional congressional committee or when he is sighted around the treasury But that's about bout all His many positions In the government government government govern govern- ment during the last fifteen or more years have earned for him the reputation tation as the governments government's handy handyman man In almost every major project providing providing pro pro- providing viding emergency financial aid for agriculture and other industries he has been en called upon either for lor counsel counsel coun coun- sd sel in setting up the relief agency or for active supervision He was managing director of the War Finance corporation the government government government gov gov- organization which for several several several sev sev- eral years conducted an Industry I and agricultural loan business at the rate of several million dollars a day He Ic was a member of the federal farm loan oan board for lor two years and has been een governor of the federal reserve board since 1930 His IlLs first government post was on the he advisory commission of ot the the- wartime wartime wartime war war- time council of national defense deene |