Word: meyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chairman Ferguson promptly summoned Hughes's pressagent, John Meyer, the man with the inexhaustible bank account and all the girl friends. Chairman Ferguson proceeded with loving caution...
...Charming." His bald pate shining under the committee's klieglights, rubber-faced Johnny Meyer said that he had indeed known Elliott Roosevelt more than somewhat. All the time Roosevelt had been out looking at planes, Hughes's Meyer had been at Elliott's elbow, pouring on the treatment. The night that the final Roosevelt recommendation went to Washington, Johnny had treated Elliott to the tune of $106.50 at Manhattan's swank night clubs...
...committee had seized, were spread as evidence. After one dinner for Elliott, Johnny had meticulously jotted down the item of $200 as "presents for four girls." There was another cryptic notation of $50 for "girls at hotel (late)." From the summer of 1943 to the autumn of 1945, Meyer figured, he had spent the whopping sum of $5,083.79 on fun & games for Elliott Roosevelt and his friends. In December 1944, Elliott married Faye...
Senator Owen Brewster of Maine is holding high his torch, attempting to illuminate the sex, sin and Scotch with which he claims Howard Hughes and his press agent Johnny Meyer enticed a willing Elliott Roosevelt into handing them a juicy war contract. Pin-up addicts, tabloid readers, and desk bound Washingtonians should be duly grately to the Senator for bringing a spot of joy to dull summer routines. The sex-saturated poses of the scarcely clad "Wham Girl" that have enlivened newspapers and magazines are better than Saturday night at the Old Howard; and Hughes' picture, showing him haggard...
Where did the girls come in? All the accused, except the girls, kept mum. Elliott had been through newspaper probes before. He said nothing. But Secretary Krug, a Cabinet member now, had to say something. He admitted that he had attended a few of Meyer's parties. But he denied having attended at least three for which Meyer had him listed on his expense sheet. Meyer, said Krug wrathfully, was padding the account at his expense...