Word: willette
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grumpy king's observation fits the theory of government often used in Harry Truman's Administration of George III's former real estate. A good recent example: the association of Donald Dawson, still the White House patronage dispenser, and his two good friends, William E. Willett and Francis P. Whitehair...
...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...
...While Willett was being chased out of public office, another friend of Donald Dawson's came scurrying in. Francis P. Whitehair is a bushy-haired, 51-year-old De Land, Fla. politician with a fat law practice in other states. Donald Dawson got him the job as chief counsel to the Economic Stabilization Agency...
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...
...left to one of RFC's own harried directors to give the committee one solid bit of testimony to chew on. The whole RFC board had been "bad," declared Director William E. Willett and he guessed that he had been just "as bad as the rest...