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Internal Memorandum February 18, 1954 Washington, D* G. Interview with Miss Anna Youngman at her new residence in the Marlyn Apartments Miss loungraan worked with Parker Willis on the Journal of Commerce. She was an editorial writer but the rumor that she wrote some of the Willis editorials is something which she denies. She says she did not agree with Mr. Willis on banking policies and would not have written editorials attributed to him. She has kept no files and was by had no means as useful in connection with the Willis papers as I had/reason to think she would be. Miss Youngaaan confirmed what I had heard from other sources that Mr* Willis headed the first Research Division of the Federal Reserve Board and that on being asked to teach at Columbia he took the Division to Mew York and kept it there for three years. During this time a running fight went on with Mr. Jacobson (now deceased) and Mr* Goldenw^Lser and Mr» Adolph Miller. Obviously the distance between the Research Division and the Board for which research was being done caused a great deal of the difficulty and at the end of three years the division was restored to Washington and put into other hands • When Mr. Eugene Myer bought the Washington Post he took Miss Anna Youngman with him to write editorials there* She did financial editorials for the Post for many years. Her last job at the Post was the classification of Mr. Myer1 s own papers* Miss Youngiaan says that these papers have now been brought from lew lork and the steamer place belonging e to Mr. Myer at White Plains and are in Washington. She says that they include seven or eight volumes of diaries carefully typed and indexed. Obviously some of these diaries which, according to Miss Xoungman, are better in the earlier period than the later ones will have material which is important to this project. Miss Youngman says that Mr. Floyd Harrison, who is Mr, Myerfs right hand man in New lork, is the person n who can give further information about the papers and who will know if any provision has been made for their disposal after Mr. ^fyer1 s death. n Miss Youngman lives alone with her sister. Both ladies are far from young and iny information which is needed from Miss loungsaan should be gained as soon as possible. Concerning Mr. Willis she said that he was not a difficult man to work with because he protected the people who worked with him. Assumed responsibility for the things they did and gave them credit when he thought they deserved it. He was on the other hand a man of lively mind and extremely fond of argument. She suggested that Mr. Jules Bogen, Mr. John M. Chapman of the school of business at Columbia University, who was at one time assistant to Mr. Williams and Mr. ¥• H. Stiner (correction that might be Steiner but I am not sure). At 328 liverside Drive, New York Might at all of them have further information about Mr. ¥illis
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