Word: merle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just like Horatio Alger, E. Merl Young began at the bottom of the ladder and worked his way up in no time at all simply because he was personable, persevering alert-and a friend of the man who owned the ladder...
...Merl got to know his benefactor in Missouri when he helped a little in Harry Truman's 1934 campaign for the Senate. A smooth-talking young man at 24, Merl came to Washington in 1937 and got a job with a dairy company. But his Missouri friend did not forget him. In 1940, Senator Truman gave Marl's wife, Lauretta, a job in his office; for part of the time, she was Harry Vaughan's secretary. Merl himself went to work for the Government's General Accounting Office as an assistant messenger at $20 a week...
Super Errand Boy. After the war, Merl Young blossomed. He was hired as an examiner for the Reconstruction Finance Corp. at $4,500 a year, soon was getting more than $7,000. He was a frequent caller at the White House, where he would go to pick up Lauretta at the end of the working day or converse with his good friend Donald Dawson, ex-personnel officer of RFC, who became the President's principal adviser on political patronage. (Mrs. Alva Dawson works at the RFC as supervisor of all the agency's files.) Merl was also available...