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  Katharine Graham -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Graham was the subject of one of the most famous threats in American journalism history.
Graham's father, (additional info and facts about Eugene Meyer) Eugene Meyer, was a millionaire financier and government official who bought The Washington Post in 1933 at a bankruptcy auction.
Her husband, Philip Graham, became (The proprietor of a newspaper) publisher of the Post, but she abruptly had to take it over after his suicide in 1963.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/katharine_graham.htm   (352 words)

  
 Graham (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Graham is a class of hill in Scotland.
Graham is also a first name or surname meaning grey house, grey armour and well health.
Graham crackers are a kind of pastry, sweeter than most crackers but not within the range of what are in the United States of America generally termed cookies.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graham_(disambiguation)   (591 words)

  
 In re Marriage of Graham (2003) [ Cal.App.4th ]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Katherine, on the other hand, thought her income should be based on a lesser number of hours, approximately 24 to 36 hours per week.
Katherine complains that the court abused its discretion in imputing to her an earning capacity of $5,618.08 per month, based on 36 hours per week at $24.01 per hour plus 12 hours per week at $36.01 per hour.
Katherine testified that she was paid $24.01 per hour for the first 8 hours of her shift.
fsnews.findlaw.com /cases/ca/caapp4th/slip/2003/g029329.html   (2323 words)

  
 The Mountain Times
Katherine Graham was hesitant to accept her title as Woman of the Month; she indicated that there were others “out there” more deserving of the recognition.
Katherine agrees that her treatment is personalized and that it is important for her clients to forget they are the patient, and she the therapist.
Graham has done a fair share of that, we felt it was vital to share her professional attitude about the treatment of her fellowman, which extends way beyond the realms of physical therapy.
www.mountaintimes.com /mtweekly/2003/0605/woman_month.php3   (973 words)

  
 William F. Buckley Jr. on Katherine Graham on NRO
This is so because she became a mythogenic figure in her profession: a woman; a victim of a deranged husband; unworldly heir of a seedling enterprise she superintended with growing authority, knowing almost always when to yield to professional advice from journalists, when to assert her own voice.
Graham was 84, she tripped and fell over, lost consciousness and never regained it in the two days before her heart stopped beating.
Graham is no longer there, to govern, to befriend, to enjoy and be enjoyed.
www.nationalreview.com /buckley/buckley072001.shtml   (722 words)

  
 Books: Katherine Graham (Austin Chronicle . 07-08-97)
And it is the story of the roles, both good and bad, that Graham and her paper eventually played at various points in history -- the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, and the pressmen's strikes of 1974 and 1975.
After her husband's death, Graham writes, "What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes, and step off the edge," by taking control of The Washington Post and the Washington Post Company.
Graham's memoirs point indirectly to the fact that the process of revamping feminine attributes (if you agree with the "difference feminists") and overcoming socialized insecurities (if you agree with the "social feminists") is an ongoing one.
weeklywire.com /ww/07-08-97/austin_books_feature1.html   (1288 words)

  
 BookPage Nonfiction Review: Personal History
Katharine Graham, one of America's most powerful people, says she decided to publish her memoirs at age 79 because it was time to record the story of those who shepherded the Washington Post to greatness -- her father, Eugene Meyer; her late husband, Phil Graham; and herself.
It was time, Graham said in a recent interview, that she look back at the defining issues in a life well lived, a life which also parallels the evolution of women from "second-class citizenship" to positions of rank and leadership.
She insisted her son, Donald Graham, now publisher, and Alan Spoon, the company's chief operating officer, keep her posted but remain "totally in charge." One of her final decisions while she was totally in charge was deciding when she would leave the company.
www.bookpage.com /9702bp/nonfiction/personalhistory.html   (1053 words)

  
 Wash. Post's Graham dies - Jul. 17, 2001
Graham, chairman of the executive committee of the newspaper, had been unconscious and in critical condition after a fall last weekend on a concrete walkway outside a condominium in Sun Valley, Idaho, where she was attending a conference of business leaders.
Graham took over the top position at the Post in 1963 after the suicide of her husband, Philip L. Graham, who suffered from manic depression.
Journalism aside, Graham's career was equally notable for the business sense with which she built the Washington Post Co. into a profitable conglomerate.
money.cnn.com /2001/07/17/news/graham   (380 words)

  
 The Washington Post: The establishment's paper
Graham and the company of which she is "chairman"--she lists herself in the D.C. phone book as "Graham, Philip L. Mrs."--have never entertained a thought of straying from the establishment..
Graham was scandalized by the cultural and political revolutions of the 1960s, and wept when LBJ fused to run for reelection in 1968.
Graham, who handed out garment workers' union literature in her college days, broke the press workers' union in 1975 by provoking a strike and putting out the paper with scab labor and out-of-town contractors.
www.fair.org /extra/9001/washington-post.html   (1672 words)

  
 Operation Mockingbird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Journalists were encouraged to pass along intelligence they came across in their work and to support American policies in their writings.
Reportedly, Allen Dulles, Richard Helms and Philip Graham were involved in the operation.
This book makes many claims about Katherine Graham, then owner of the Washington Post, and her cooperation with Operation Mockingbird.
www.four54.com /deheus/petrik/demo/wikipedia   (221 words)

  
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Katharine Meyer Graham was once described as "the most powerful woman in America." She was not a government official or elected representative.
Katherine Meyer graduated from the University of Chicago in Illinois in Nineteen-Thirty-Eight.
Friends of Katharine Graham said she would be remembered as a woman who had an important influence on events in the United States and the world.
www.help-for-you.com /news/Aug2003/scripts/2fe5879a.html   (1104 words)

  
 NPR News: Katherine Graham Obituary
- Katharine Graham --> July 17, 2001 -- She guided The Washington Post through its historic coverage of the toppling of a president, won a Pulitzer Prize for her autobiography, Personal History, and ruled Washington's political and media scene in a style that was inimitably her own.
Katharine Graham lived a remarkable life made more so by the circumstances of her rise to the top of her profession.
He committed suicide in 1963 and Graham became president of the company -- at a time when most women were in charge of their households and little else.
www.npr.org /news/specials/kgraham/010717.kgraham.html   (368 words)

  
 Interview with Katherine Graham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Katherine Graham is the owner and former publisher of The Washington Post.
Katherine Graham notes that she was determined to keep the newspaper in her family.
Graham said that she "always associated the Pulitzer with reporters and editors and was always proud when we won one.
www.familyhaven.com /books/personalgraham.html   (638 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Power Privilege and the Post: The Katherine Graham Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Beginning with Graham's difficult relationship with her mother and moving through her marriage to the brilliant but manic-depressive Phil Graham, Felsenthal (Alice Roosevelt Longworth, LJ 2/15/88, and The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority: The Biography of Phyllis Schafly, LJ 1/81) documents the emotional abuses that helped shape a vulnerable and tough Kay...
Katherine is initially, for all intents and purposes, ignored by her family throughout her youth.
Katherine perseveres through these harsh circumstances only to have her husband, Phil Graham, blow his brains out in the bathroom of one of their homes during a respite from an insane asylum.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0399137327   (946 words)

  
 Los Gatos Weekly-Times | Carl Heintze: Katherine Graham and Jane McClelland
Katherine Graham's funeral at the Washington National Cathedral was fit for a president and, indeed, had at least one president and a host of other Washington power brokers on hand to say goodbye.
Katherine Graham was born to wealth, survived adversity in her personal life and built The Post into a multibillion-dollar empire.
Katherine Graham, thrust into the ownership and operation of The Post by her husband's suicide, moved quietly, courageously and carefully to learn and then rule The Post--and Washington, D.C. Under her leadership, not only The Post, but many other newspapers took on a responsibility and a shape they had not known before.
www.svcn.com /archives/lgwt/08.01.01/heintze-0131.html   (912 words)

  
 A Life to Remember
By simply taking control of the paper at a time when women were in charge of their households and little else, Graham helped change the role of women in journalism, in politics and in society in general.
The book was lauded for Katherine’s honest portrayal of her husband’s mental illness, and Katherine received a Pulitzer Prize for her book in 1998.
Katherine was injured in a fall in Idaho in June 2001 and died from complications of that fall on July 17, 2001.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/11116/86544   (368 words)

  
 Kate -- Champion of the Leviathan State
Thus, even in her death, Graham is doing what she did during her life: promoting the growth of the Leviathan state at the expense of individual liberty.
It was one of the first newspapers to call for the total ban on handgun sales to private individuals, and it has been a constant voice calling for more regulation, higher taxes, and the erosion of what is left of the federalist system as outlined in the US Constitution.
They did not have to fear being exposed by the press since Graham and her allies had already decided that Orwell’s Big Brother had it right all along: Slavery is Freedom, War is Peace, and Ignorance is Strength.
www.lewrockwell.com /anderson/anderson38.html   (1278 words)

  
 BookPage Nonfiction Review: Katharine Graham's Washington
The result is Katharine Graham's Washington, a pitch-perfect anthology that captures the nuances of life in the nation's capital.
An observer of D.C. life for decades (she even refers to herself in the introduction as the Forrest Gump of Washington—always managing to be ringside for historical events), Graham's comments add considerable zing to the volume.
A hilarious piece on its own, Graham writes an introduction that further enhances the essay, revealing Alsop as a brilliant, charming and "enormously fat" man with whom she remained close friends for years.
www.bookpage.com /0211bp/nonfiction/katherine_graham.html   (547 words)

  
 The Real Katherine Graham - Champion Of The Leviathan State
However, I do think that it is quite appropriate to point out that the real legacy of Graham and her newspaper is the constant erosion of freedom that we have seen since her ascendancy to the "throne" of the Post.
By now, all of us who even marginally follow the mainstream news know that Graham was basically a Washington socialite who was suddenly placed in an unfamiliar role of chairman of the Washington Post Company after her husband committed suicide in 1963.
Granted, the Post did give coverage to the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Graham would rather have ignored it except for the fact that Michael Issikof, a reporter for the Post-owned Newsweek, relentlessly pursued the story, much to the chagrin of Graham and her Washington socialite allies.
www.rense.com /general12/lev.htm   (1288 words)

  
 Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The nation’s rich and powerful sent Katherine Graham off to her afterlife this week with the kind of pomp and circumstance normally bestowed on heads of state and really important people.
Granted, Katherine Graham accomplished far more than anyone expected after her husband blew his brains out and she took over the paper.
Perhaps the only media that put Katherine Graham’s death into proper perspective is a newsletter we get via email that lists the demise of the famous and infamous.
www.capitolhillblue.com /rant.asp?offset=0&ID=2052   (524 words)

  
 The Idler,vIIIn147
Graham asked if I thought Ted Turner would sell Turner Broadcasting to The Washington Post Company and come to work for her as CEO.
Graham had adopted the role of the courtly Southern gentleman.
Graham had been taken for a tour of the Washington bureau by Ted Turner.
www.geocities.com /dcjarviks/Idler/vIIIn147.html   (438 words)

  
 Katherine A.H. Graham appointed Dean of Public Affairs and Management
Professor Graham, currently Associate Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs and Management, and Professor of Public Policy and Administration, graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in political Science from Glendon College, York University, in 1970.
Professor Graham taught as an adjunct assistant professor in the School of Public Administration at Queen's before joining Carleton University's faculty in 1984.
Professor Graham is a renowned researcher in public policy and management, with particular expertise in urban government and Aboriginal northern policy and development.
www.carleton.ca /duc/newsreleases/2002/kgraham.html   (511 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Personal History (Women in History S.): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Above all, Katharine Graham tells her own story - the contradictions of her privileged yet lonely childhood; the tragic drama of her marriage - and the challenges of her new life as the head of a great newspaper company.
Mention the name Katharine Graham today, and she is almost as well known as she was in 2001 when she died after falling and striking her head.
Graham appealing, it will probably be because of her willingness to do the right thing, even when very painful and dangerous to her, and her loyalty to others.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1842126202   (1454 words)

  
 Katherine Graham, anti-gun proponent, dies - TheFiringLine Forums
Graham was head of the Washington Post from the 1960s to the 1990s and was an outspoken proponent for stricted gun control, as was her newspaper.
Graham’s anguish is what helped make her make those choices in life.
Graham is a "Rapsody In Blue." I, for one, will consider her passing a loss to humanity.
www.thefiringline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=73694   (1248 words)

  
 Divas - The Site / Society Divas / Katherine Graham
Although Graham was far more eager to be viewed as a role model for working women than Thatcher, both simply assumed that there was no reason a talented woman couldn't do the jobs men had been screwing up for centuries.
the young Katharine Graham experienced the insidious anti-Semitism which then clouded American life: as a student at the University of Chicago, certain clubs were closed to her.
Graham and the Times had won a landmark victory for press freedom but, in doing so, had made an enemy of
www.divasthesite.com /Society_Divas/katherine_graham_a.htm   (1491 words)

  
 Biography for Katherine Graham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
She married Philip Graham in 1940, and in 1945 left the Post to raise a family.
From 1973-1991, Graham, known to many as "Kay," was board chairman and chief executive officer of the Washington Post Company.
Under Katharine Graham's leadership, The Washington Post became known for its hard-hitting investigations, including the publication of the secret Pentagon Papers against the advice of lawyers and government directives, followed by Woodward and Bernstein's investigative reporting of the Watergate scandal.
www.brandt21forum.info /Bio-Graham.htm   (232 words)

  
 Women On Their Way - Cary's Book Club - Personal History
This is the autobiography of Katherine Graham, first woman CEO of a Fortune 500 Company.
Graham chronicles her personal challenges - her troubled relationship with her mother, her difficult marriage, her husband's slide into insanity - with refreshing candidness.
Graham, she agonizes over the devastating effect her attitude must have had on other women she worked with.
www.wyndham.com /wotw/bookclub/books/personalhistory/bookreview.wnt   (231 words)

  
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Katherine Graham, as well as the entire Washington Post mileau, have a long-standing relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency.
And Philip Graham here, again, one of the people working with Richard Helms, later Director of Central Intelligence, and CIA official Frank Wisner, was one of the people who helped develop this Operation Mockingbird: the first, and most long-running and successful, of the many CIA programs infiltrating and manipulating the news media.
Phillip Graham's committment to intelligence gave his friend Frank Wisner and Allen Dulles an interest in making the Washington Post the dominant news vehicle in Washington, which they did by assisting its two most crucial acquisitions, the Times-Herald and WTOP [radio].
www.theconspiracy.us /vol9/cn9-35.html   (1340 words)

  
 Estate Axes
Warren Buffett, the $35 billion man, was a dear friend of the recently departed Katherine Graham.
He met Graham in the 1970s as an investor in The Washington Post Company, her family’s lauded enterprise, where she became the first female Fortune 500 CEO.
Graham wouldn’t have been the "Grand Dame" as eulogized by Benjamin Bradlee.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig/jones1.html   (936 words)

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