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President Eisenhower approved the retirement of two federal judges who had presided over some historic trials. The jurists: Missouri's Albert L. Reeves, 80, an appointee of Warren G. Harding who sat at the trial of Kansas City Politico Tom Pendergast (income tax evasion) and who last November passed death sentences on the Greenlease kidnapers; New York's Vincent L. Leibell, 70, an F.D.R. appointee who last year handed a three-year perjury sentence to William W. Remington, former government economist who had denied Communist ties...
...Wells. Fitz slugs Democrats as hard as Republicans when he thinks they are wrong, e.g., Missouri's Pendergast machine. He likes to say that he is lined up unwaveringly with only one group, "the underdogs," because he started out with them himself. At 15 he was expelled from high school in Superior, Wis. for spending all his time drawing instead of studying. He worked his way through the Chicago Art Institute by sweeping floors, working in a cafeteria, ushering at a theater and cooking on an ore boat. He finally landed a staff job on the Chicago Daily News...
...indictment was handed down, it was criticized in the Senate by Kansas' Republican Frank Carlson, who saw more politics than justice in the Justice Department's suit. Said Carlson: "Those of us who are somewhat familiar with the campaign of the Kansas City Star against the Pendergast machine . . . could well anticipate this vindictive action on the part of the President...
...near tripling in the price of news print, 185% increase in its labor bill and a 265% tax hike. Roberts bitterly recalled two other cases in which the Gov ernment and the Star were involved. During the late 1930s, the Star finally began to slam away at the corrupt Pendergast machine, which had given Truman his start in politics. The FBI moved in, and 259 politicos were found guilty of vote fraud and ballot-box stuffing. In 1946, the Star again struck at the Pendergast machine. But this time, said Roberts, under the Truman Administration the FBI came in only...
What else can a Pendergast offer? November 4, 1952 will answer. Cornella Elliott Prentice 4070 Thorne Street San Diego, California