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Bartle was not the coalition's target. The real enemy was City Manager L. P. (for Laurie Perry) Cookingham, 62, hired by the reform Citizens Association when it took over in 1940. In the pre-1940 high-flying days of Tom Pendergast's corrupt rule, after-hours liquor sales were a big business, and so were gambling and prostitution; the businessman's lunch hour at the popular Chesterfield Club on Ninth Street was famous for its stark-naked waitresses. City Manager Cookingham cleaned up the town, got going on new roads, schools, sewers, etc., created an environment...
Despite the good record, the city was just plain getting bored with the long-entrenched reformers; some complained that Cookingham himself wielded too much power, grumbled about new taxes following the annexation of outlying communities. Threats of new taxes simmered. So did resentment against the powerful Kansas City Star, whose editorials carried dramatic warnings that a coalition victory would bring back the gaudy old days of wholesale corruption...
...Council, and had quickly switched to the other side. With Shafer leading the coalition bush-beating, the Citizens Association lost five of its eight members on the council, and the city was assured of a new kind of rule. Also assured: the eventual resignation of City Manager L. P. Cookingham, the man who gave Kansas City that clean look...
...technically runs the town is City Manager Perry Cookingham. The first time the city manager went to see Roberts, the fat man told him: "All we want is the best government you can give us. If we think you're wrong, we'll tell you-on Page One." The last time Cookingham saw Roberts was to tell him that another city had offered him a similar job at higher pay. The quick result: a boost from $18,000 to $25,000 for Manager Cookingham...
...following members of the third year class of the Law School have been appointed to serve on the Finance Committee, to canvass the class for funds for future reports: Herbert John Connell, of Omaha, Neb.: Prescott Whitehouse Cookingham, of Portland, Ore.; Peter Edward Costello '11, of South Boston; Robert Harold Holt '11, of Gardiner, Me.; and Melville Monheimer '12, of Seattle, Wash...