Word: mckittrick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before his legislature met, Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark published a tempting want ad. If any place needed a Dewey, thundered the Governor, it was that haven of corruption, Kansas City, stamping ground, of his old enemy, Boss Tom Pendergast. Governor Stark ordered his Attorney General Roy McKittrick to go into action. Last week the play was taken out of McKittrick's reluctant hands by an oldtimer at reform...
When Judge Southern's turn came again, Governor Stark's demand for a Kansas City Dewey was still dangling. Attorney General McKittrick had conferred with Kansas City's Prosecutor W. W. Graves, a tame Pendergast cat, who announced that there was nothing to investigate. Judge Southern suddenly issued search warrants, sent police out raiding...
Judge Southern summoned a county grand jury and ordered Prosecutor Graves to keep hands off the evidence he had collected (including a sucker list of Kansas City's amateur gamblers complete with their credit connections). As Prosecutors Graves and McKittrick sat by, jaws hanging, Judge Southern snapped to the jury: "Gentlemen, the prosecuting attorney denies ... a general state of lawlessness exists.. .. It is certain that the prosecuting attorney has not prepared and will not be able to prepare evidence of a thing which he says does not exist. . . . The Attorney General tells me ... he has obtained no evidence...
...Jefferson City, Mo. Attorney General Roy McKittrick ruled that the famed MPAYBE "Movie Quiz" was a lottery, advised Missouri theatre owners who wished to avoid the chance of going to prison for from two to five years to avoid participating...
Matthew and Mary E. Bartlett Scholarships: Murray S. Howland, Jr., 2M, of Binghamton, N. Y., A.B. Yale 1933. John B. McKittrick, 2M, of Chestnut Hill, Mass., Univ. of Wis. Henry B. Garrigues, of Conshohocken, Pa., Harvard Univ...