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...federal grand jury 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...
...June 1948, Dawson had the President name Willett as one of RFC's five directors. A regular luncheon companion of Dawson's and of E. Merl (Mink Coat) Young's, Willett was willing to do some favors in return. To give big loans to politically correct companies and individuals, he switched RFC examiners and overrode his own reviewers. After the Fulbright committee's investigation of the RFC, the Senate, in February 1951, refused to confirm his appointment...
...Chairmen. Green's daughter knew some folks, too. She worked in Matt Connelly's White House office, where she was friendly with Mrs. Merl (mink coat) Young. Called to the stand, Green had to be excused for incoherence. "Have you been drinking anything today?" asked Senator Joe McCarthy. Green replied with the partial admission and justification that has been standard in all phases of the recent hearings: "I had one Martini at lunchtime . . . only one. Is there anything wrong with that...
Meanwhile, before another Senate committee, Bill Boyle was busy throwing dust. Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine asked him why he permitted E. Merl (mink coat) Young to work for him when he was an official of the 1948 Democratic campaign. "There must be some confusion," Boyle replied. "I was a volunteer worker in the 1948 campaign ... I held no title ... or office . . . I've certainly striven to conduct myself as my mother would want...
...Lithofold Corp. had some good friends-of-friends. One was ex-RFCer Merl (Mink Coat) Young, who phoned Alexander from Washington that "the Democratic National Committee is interested in this loan." Another was James Finnegan, St. Louis Collector of Internal Revenue and crony of the President. Finnegan added his pleas. Finnegan would generally agree with Alexander that some of Lithofold's business practices were unsound (as Alexander recalled it), "but he would invariably ask, at each meeting, 'How's the loan coming, Charlie...