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...sitting in Washington finally got around to the man who added the mink coat couchant to the escutcheon of the Truman Administration. Indicted for perjury last week was owlish E. Merl Young, an old Missouri friend of Harry Truman, and a former RFC examiner who became a $60,000-a-year influence peddler in Washington. Indicted with him: Joseph Hirsch Rosenbaum, the lawyer who gave Mrs. Lauretta Young her famed $9,450 "natural royal pastel" mink, and two others accused of swinging their weight around the scandal-ridden RFC. Young and the others lied, said the jury, when they denied...
...days later, the ax fell on one of the RFC men most susceptible to Merl Young's influential ways. William E. Willett, ousted as an RFC director last February, had slipped back on to the Government payroll as an $11,800-a-year "specialist" for Under Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Whitehair. When news of Willett's new job leaked out last week (TIME, Dec. 24), Defense Secretary Robert Lovett (who hadn't been told that Willett was drawing a Government check again) demanded his resignation forthwith...
...this day, little (250-watt) WMPC broadcasts nothing but religious programs. No commercials are allowed, and the station's three full-time engineers (two of them ministers) have instructions to cut any program off the air that asks for money. Part of WMPC's $40,000-a-year operating budget comes from the donations of Michigan church groups which use radio time. For the remainder, Frank Hemingway prays, and the money never fails to come in, in small, unsolicited contributions...
...normally hand out an average of 82 traffic tickets a day. But last week, before the election, the cops eased off until the daily total dropped to a soothing average of only 27. There was a reason: the cops were hoping that the townspeople would vote them $500-a-year salary increases. The voters turned them down. On the following day, things were different: Yonkers' policemen issued an all-time record of 458 traffic summonses. The next day they plastered Yonkers' cars with 525. The day after that, despite howls of protest, indignant editorials and black looks from...
...While appealing a five-year conviction for perjury before the Kefauver committee, and awaiting trial on charges of engineering a $500,000-a-year Fire Department shakedown racket, New York's ex-Water Commissioner James J. Moran is studying at St. John's University in Brooklyn. His two courses: Principles of Ethics and Introduction to Christian Theology...