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Molasses & Mink. There could be no doubt that Harry Truman obviously and passionately believed what he had said. And no one suggested that his Administration was about to come crumbling down about his ears, as did Harding's in 1922. But there were certainly some termites eating away the beams, whether Harry Truman could hear them...
...cotton market (he didn't have the "slightest idea" cotton was a commodity, he explained); there were the Five Percenters; there was Personal Aide Harry Vaughan caught with his pudgy fingers deep in war-scarce stocks of molasses, grain and building materials -and now the RFC and mink coats...
...Story of Virginia Hill. Counsel Halley had one more diversion before he went back to the main theme. In flung Virginia Hill, queen of the gangsters' molls. She was soignee in a platinum mink stole and picture hat. She was also cursing the photographers. "Make them stop doing that; I'll throw something at them in a minute," she told Kefauver angrily. Then, while the Senators listened breathlessly, Virginia told her simple tale of how a 17-year-old waitress from Alabama met a friend of big-time bookies named Joe Epstein, and started along the road...
...introduced them, and she treated Sid to a cup of coffee. She added that she only went out with poor boys and had presumed that he was busted enough to be eligible. To her horror, she discovered that this was not the case-Sid gave her a $3,500 mink coat...
...want to look at him." Then Sidney got mad and threatened her and swore to take back his gifts. "If he had said 'I need the money,' I would have gladly given everything back, but when he got nasty I got mad and told him off." The mink coat, she added airily, had been stolen recently...