Word: collectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine came in 1941, after Missouri Democrats had blundered into the colossal error of attempting to "steal" the governorship from Republican Forrest C. Donnell (TIME, March 23, 1942). Bob Hannegan's organizing talents did not lie idle long. Year later, Missouri Senators Clark and Truman boomed him for Collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis...
Hannegan, happy with a profitable law practice, did not want the new job. But when St. Louis newspapers screamed their editorial heads off ("An affront to thousands," said the Post-Dispatch), he determined to get it. He did, after having been investigated from hell to breakfast. Collector Bob Hannegan tried to make tax-paying as painless as possible: he eliminated long waiting lines, instructed his clerks in the rudiments of courtesy. He went to night school to study taxation...
...tender Irish widow (Jane Darwell). Her guests are a lorgnetted, half-tetched old maid (Brenda Forbes) and a you-lead-I'll-follow neighbor woman. Light of heart and low in funds, the three of them racket about, play Cupid, take up Spanish, wrangle with the tax collector...
...left behind: "When I talk to my friends, on the phone say, about some man who divorced his wife to run off with her daughter by a former marriage, they say: 'sh-sh, you're back in New York, you know.' " Long-famed as an uninhibited collector of 1) the first engineering degree given a woman by the University of Wisconsin, 2) monkeys, 3) the lowdown, 4) U.S.-banked royalties on her best-selling The Soong Sisters, 5) Manila cigar ashes, Miss Hahn introduced a reporter to the most unconventional item in her Oriental collection...
...food the farmer's busy wife served in his malodorous one-room house (where she also removed the grease from wool with urine) "would cause a riot in any modern penitentiary," and the antique collector's prized four-poster bed originated as a cubicle to shield man & wife from the curiosity of their growing children...