Word: milligan
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Died. Maurice M. Milligan, 74, tenacious U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri (1934-45), who toppled the corrupt Pendergast machine, sent Boss Tom Pendergast to jail for income tax evasion; in Kansas City, Mo. Milligan struck the entrenched machine at its vitals: the ballot box. He convicted 259 Pendergast lackeys for fraud in the 1936 election alone. He later lost (1940) a bitter primary race for U.S. Senator to Pendergast Protege Harry Truman, who as Vice President in 1945 closed Milligan's career-by blocking his reappointment...
EUGENE P. PRICE Professor of Economics Milligan College Milligan College, Tenn...
...teacher and the brother of two more, 50-year-old Lawrence Derthick has spent his life in education. Born in a dormitory at Kentucky's Hazel Green Academy, he graduated from Tennessee's Milligan College, immediately took a job as teacher-principal of the consolidated elementary and high school in Greene County. By 1935 he was state high-school visitor for east Tennessee. Four years later he became assistant school superintendent in Nashville; in 1942 he got his present post in Chattanooga...