Word: lonejack
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...Republican district, and the few Democrats were badly split between Tom Pendergast's "goats" and Joe Shannon's "rabbits." Mother Boyle stuck loyally to the "goats," and ran her Cosmopolitan Democratic club for Tom Pendergast with a firm hand. At the big, rip-snorting Pendergast picnics at Lonejack, Mo., the Boyles got well acquainted with the Trumans, another loyal Pendergast family. Harry Truman was a Jackson County judge (i.e., county commissioner) and making a name for himself for administration. "The President loved those picnics, never missed one," Bill Boyle recalled much later. The kids always hoped Judge Truman...
...speeches you ever heard. The President loved those picnics, never missed one." Boyle recalled listening to the President's St. Louis speech just before the 1948 election. "About halfway through, he began talking off the cuff. 'Uh-oh,' I said to myself, 'here goes a Lonejack oration,' and that's what...