Word: minked
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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...
...friend jabbed me in the ribs. "I don't want a mink coat," he groaned. "All I want is suggestions for a ten dollar present; let's get out of here...
...took our seats by a window and watched the rain outside until one of the little men in white appeared, took our order and reappeared with two high-balls. Firmly clutching our glasses, we turned our attention to a saleslady in blue mink oozing over to the table on our right...
...this, the shade of her eyes, sir?" she asked the broad, blue-suited gentleman. "Not sure," he replied. "Had a light tan mink in mind, to go with her hair." "Well then," the saleslady replied in a coy tone of voice, "why not buy her both? Everyone gives mink coats for Christmas, but not many men give two." The man thought this over...