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OHIO: Daniel J. Crowley, Jr., Bowling Green; Ernest J. Dieterich, Akron; Kenneth S. Lynn II, Shaker Heights; Melvin L. Milligan, Massillon; James W. Warwick, Toledo...
...yard free-style: Won by Curwen (H); second, Powers (H); third, Milligan (S). Time...
...yard free-style: Won by Powers (H); second, Bosworth (H); third, Milligan (S). Time...
Meantime Governor Stark kept his end up. He denounced Truman for his link with Boss Pendergast; for playing politics he denounced the third candidate, former U. S. District Attorney Maurice Milligan, who last year sent Boss Pendergast to prison. Lincolnesque Mr. Milligan, in turn, blazed away at Truman, charged him with having won his Senate seat in 1934 with the help of 60,000 fraudulent votes dug up by Pendergast; at Stark for sticking with Pendergast until Milligan sent the boss to jail...
When the yelling had quieted down, Truman had beaten Stark by 8,000 votes, with Milligan a poor third, and Missouri voters found to their dismay that, in a year when Louisiana had kicked out the remnants of the Huey Long machine, they had voted to restore Pendergastery. Old Tom Pendergast was out of Leavenworth on probation, and under the lee of Mayor Bernard Dickmann's St. Louis machine the Pendergasters in Kansas City could now mend their battered breeches. No one believed that Republican Candidate Manuel A. Davis would be strong enough to beat Truman in November...