Word: pendergast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Does anybody know," asked the teacher, "who put Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City behind the bars...
...ought to know it was Attorney General Murphy and J. Edgar Hoover." Seventeen-year-old Robert Irey reddened, said nothing. The Ireys don't talk much. But he knew very well who was responsible for jailing Tom Pendergast. Why, J. Edgar Hoover had never even heard of the case until the four-year accumulation of convicting evidence had been turned over to Department of Justice lawyers. He knew because the man who got the evidence...
When old Tom Pendergast shuffled off to jail, credit for overthrowing him was claimed by almost everybody, including Kansas City's vigorous District Attorney Maurice Milligan and Missouri's hardworking Governor Lloyd Crow Stark. Recently Governor Stark avowed his intention of going after the Democratic nomination to the U. S. Senate. His record: cleanup of the Pendergast machine...
...last week came the report that Truman would not run, would withdraw in favor of the one man sure to give Stark a breathless run: popular District Attorney Maurice Milligan. His record: cleanup of the Pendergast machine...
...friends disapproved of these actions and said so. Mary brooded over their criticisms, but she kept on visiting the jail. Last spring the Pendergast machine collapsed, and Mary's father was indicted. A few months later he died...