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...testified that Finnegan was "a well-met fellow and I thought he could do us some good . . ." Finnegan's services included introducing Blauner to other Democratic politicians who then went on the Lithofold payroll. One of these was Cecil A. Green, onetime garbage collector, onetime saloonkeeper and a Missourian who had done some work for Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle. Green forthwith became Lithofold's Washington representative, at $10,000 a year...
...havoc wrought on the attacking Chinese last fortnight was caused by the U.S. 2nd Division's 23rd Regiment, commanded by Colonel John F. Chiles of Independence, Mo. This week, the Peking radio wishfully announced that John Chiles had been captured. Recalling the memorable denial of his fellow Missourian, Mark Twain, the colonel, snug in his command post on the east-central front, resisted the temptation to say that the Peking report was "greatly exaggerated." Said he, simply: " Tain't true...
Last week Senate investigators had a chat with a quietly dressed Washington five-percenter named Glenn P. Boehm, who had such characteristics in abundance. Not only is he a Missourian, he also knows Harry Truman and is a friend of Presidential Cronies Donald S. Dawson and Major General Harry Vaughan. Under questioning, Boehm reluctantly disclosed a few of his successful Washington deals. Among them was arranging a $200,000 RFC loan for a Philadelphia paper concern, picking up a $10,000 fee for promising to help a Mississippian sell a submachine gun to Army Ordnance, and helping a "client...
Billy Rose took the tough-talking Missourian up on that notion, hung Benton's nude Persephone in his Diamond Horseshoe for three months. Last week a mellower Benton mildly announced that he was lending the same painting to Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum for exhibition in March. Saloons, he has decided, "are too unstable. Besides, there are too many women in them...
That equation would involve austerities, if not hardships. It was significant that Harry Truman now conferred with his fellow Missourian, Omar Bradley, every morning regularly at 9 o'clock. It was significant that Bradley sat in at some Cabinet meetings. The country's business until recently had been good living. Now the country's business was preparing to fight...