Word: maragon
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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...developed that Vaughan's crony, John Maragon, and two other representatives of the Verley Co. had managed to go to Europe on a business trip, during the period in which the freezers were being delivered, in an Army transport plane. The subcommittee's releases pointedly noted that on the return trip Maragon had attempted to smuggle expensive perfume oils into the country under his false declaration that it was champagne for the White House, and had never been prosecuted...
...curious coincidence, the Verley Co. was the same firm which employed John Maragon, sometime Kansas City bootblack and long one of Vaughan's sharp-eyed friends, who reportedly once tried to smuggle some precious perfume oil into the country as "champagne for Mrs. Truman" (TIME...
Innocent Abroad. None of this seemed like proper preparation for life among the great, but when Harry Truman went to the White House, John Maragon hopped right in behind him. He was, it developed, a particular friend of the President's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. According to his own appraisal, he was also a great friend of the President, even had a White House pass (since revoked...
...Allied Mission which supervised Greek elections. His progress was noisy. In Rome he got into a street argument with a U.S. Air Forces officer, Brig. General William L. Lee, and was slapped in the face for his pains. (The general was shortly reduced in rank.) In Athens Maragon announced himself as Harry Truman's great friend, waved a picture of himself and the President, and was finally ordered home as a nuisance...
...Maragon was closeted with members of the subcommittee three times. What had the Senators asked him? Maragon was evasive-happy but evasive. The whole thing, he implied, was simply a formality, one of those things a man who knows the right people must endure. The committee was then asked for comment. The Senators, ahum, were not talking either. At week's end Mysterious John Maragon seemed to be just as mysterious as ever...