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Good Friends. Was Dawson a good friend of Merl Young, the astonishingly successful former RFC employee who simultaneously held a $10,000-a-year job and an $18,000-a-year job with two RFC borrowers? Yes, but "it was a natural and good friendship ... I never had any business dealings with Mr. Young...
...Army Ordnance, and helping a "client" who wanted to buy surplus war property by forming a partnership and splitting a $25,000 fee. The fee was split with Herschel Young, a fellow Missourian who was an employee of the War Assets Administration and a brother-in-law of Mrs. Merl Young, the ex-White House stenographer, who got the famous pastel mink coat...
Soon, Dunham testified, he was caught up in a social whirl. Before he had been in his office four days, the ubiquitous Merl Young called on him. He soon found, said Dunham, that Dawson, RFC Director William E. Willett, Merl Young and Young's employer, Rex Jacobs, a Detroit manufacturer, were "all close friends, and that I was obviously regarded as a new member of their social group." He lunched with them and dined with them. Sometimes they were joined by Democratic National Chairman William Boyle...
...change in management-just about the time that an engineering firm reported officially that Lustron was hopeless and should be foreclosed. Next, Dunham heard a report that a "grab" of Lustron had been plotted at a house party at Jacobs' Florida ranch. Among the guests: Mr. & Mrs. Dawson, Merl Young and his wife Lauretta, the mink-coated White House secretary. Said Dunham: "Out of this Lustron matter came my first feeling of doubt . . . Shortly thereafter, it became apparent that my old 'friends' had cooled. They dropped me." "They" included Donald Dawson...
...Young, a stenographer in the White House, got the fur coat-a "natural royal pastel" mink, one of "the better" types-because of her husband Merl's vast capacity for making "friends." Merl did not even have to lay out a dollar for the coat. Joseph H. Rosenbaum, a Washington attorney specializing in clients who want RFC funds, paid for it and took Merl's note for the $8,540 purchase price. Had Rosenbaum picked up the tab for the fur coat because of Merl Young's influence at the RFC, the W7hite House and with "many...