Word: joplin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texas' Sam Rayburn, House Speaker, at a Joplin, Mo. rally where he explained away his own 1948 and 1952 efforts to make Eisenhower a Democratic President : "I said Eisenhower was a good man, but I've felt since his hassle with the 83rd Republican Congress [1953-54], he has gone sour...
...Bank. In Joplin, Mo., when Audrey Pope wanted to get at her savings in order to help pay the enrollment fee and tuition at Joplin Junior College, mechanics removed $85.10 in small change from the fuel tank...
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...bureau was delighted, although Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's office declined to go so far as to make RWBCLYIOU an official song. Nevertheless, one TV station played the song, and soon hundreds of amateur poets peppered the IRS with lively comments and suggestions. Sample, from a Joplin (Mo.) chiropractor and amateur musician, who wrote a lament to Tax Form 1040 (The One-O-Four-0 Blues) : "I fear that I'll be tardy/ In completing Form Ten Forty...
...Pint Pitcher. Feeding on the hypocrisy are the bootleggers, who buy federal retail liquor tax stamps (420 of them this year) to keep in federal good graces, but who openly defy the state. The bootleggers buy whisky wholesale in such outlets as Joplin, Mo. or Dallas, have the cases broken down into "lugs" (packages) of three fifths or six pints each for easier handling, load the lugs into stock cars with heavy-duty rear springs (so the cops cannot detect any telltale sag). They use whatever they believe is the fastest new car available (Oldsmobiles this year in preference...