Word: drennon
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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 he, "it makes me hot just to think of it." Flap-jowled Mr. Drennon coolly surveyed his spacious new office, announced that he proposed...
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