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Since Boss Tom Pendergast went to jail for income-tax evasion (TIME, May 29), the man more or less running turbid Kansas City, Mo. has been Mayor Bryce Bryan Smith. Last week Tom Pendergast's long political arm reached out of his jail cell. What was left of the Pendergast machine pulled a squeeze play in City Council, squeezed in a 73-year-old onetime insurance man named William M. Drennon as City Manager. Thus estopped in his valiant efforts to clean up dirty Kansas City, little (5 feet, 5½ inches) Mayor Smith resigned. "Hell," said...
...once saying he wanted to get rid of Maury. A feminine witness for the prosecution admitted having called Maury "a crumb." Maury's 14-year-old daughter drew a picture of a devil with a forked tail, labeled it "Gittinger" ("Buck" Gittinger, Shock's assistant). Judge Bryce Ferguson, "Ma" Ferguson's nephew, slumped down in his chair almost out of sight, looked up occasionally to quote from memory long passages of law. Defense Counsel Carl Wright Johnson, one of Texas' most eloquent bull-roarers, snorted that conspiracy testimony was stronger against Shook and Burkett, bellowed...
Adelbert Ames III, William Ames Atchley, Joseph Smith Bigelow, III, John Morton Blum, John Crapo Bullard, Gaelen Lee Felt, John Michael Harrington, Jr., Robert Heywood Hoskins, Edward Eyre Hunt, Jr., Martin Collins Johnson, Allan Lewis Levine, Harold Thayer Meryman, Henry Whitney Munroe, Joseph Crawford Scott, Carl Bryce Seligman, Preston Wood Smith, Jr., John Leland Sosman, John Finley Williamson, Jr., Brooks Wright...
...Bryce-Byram Smith, as Mayor, up to last week was a powerless dummy. Such authority as Boss Tom did not wield for himself was vested (since 1926) in rich, famed City Manager Henry F. McElroy and in the City Council. Last week Mayor Smith suddenly announced that for the good of Kansas City, he was taking unto himself the powers placed in Henry McElroy by the city charter...
...were to be chosen for them. Madison believed that many political parties would spring up, that safety for the Republic would lie in their cancellations and compromises. Instead, the two-party system became more strongly entrenched in the U. S. than anywhere else. From James Bryce to Charles A. Beard historians have puzzled over this phenomenon, asking almost as many questions as they have answered. How did it happen, for example, that the parties in the U. S., unlike those of the European democracies, were not identified with a particular section or class? How was it possible, Bryce wanted...