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...managership. The eventual result was the polite and pointed exchange of letters. As he cleaned out his desk last week, Mansure expressed a bit of philosophy that explained a great deal. "I stand by my friends," he said. "I felt about Balmer the same way Harry Truman felt about Pendergast...
Clement Malin of Dartmouth was the only Ivy League lacrosse player named to the first string All-American team. John Pendergast of Yale and John Petersen of Princeton placed on the second string squad...
...sold down the river. The Republican Party lacks color, so seldom do you hear of one of its stalwarts . . . fleeing the States like Bill O'Dwyer or going to jail like Mayor Curley. What have they ever contributed to compare with good old Mayor Hague, Ed Crump, Tom Pendergast, el al., or good staunch Democrats like Harold Ickes, Henry Wallace, Alger Hiss, Lamar Caudle ? . . . Even the President's son is a reactionary-he foolishly got rank in the Army by going to West Point and being a Second Looy...
Berry ran as an independent candidate. Bartle's chief support came from the powerful, nonpartisan Citizens Association, which swept the Pendergast machine out of the City Hall in 1940, has been busily reforming Kansas City ever since. But in his winning (by a 2-to-1 vote) effort, H. Roe Bartle also had the endorsement of the Pendergast organization, now led by James Pendergast, the nephew and pale shadow of old Tom-who did not favor Boy Scout leaders for public office...
...results of the other matches were: Henry Foster over Larry Brownell, 3-0; Harold Kaese over Bill Wister, 3-2; Mike Ward over George Pendergast, 3-0; and Neil Powell over John Rauh...