Word: pendergast
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...Missouri last week, the Democrats' chance of carrying the state got a real boost when W. Stuart Symington won the nomination for U.S. Senator over an opponent who had been endorsed by the creaky Pendergast machine and by Harry S. Truman. Handsome Stu Symington has a glamorous record of public service (he was the first Secretary of the Air Force, headed the National Security Resources Board, cleaned up the scandal-pocked Reconstruction Finance Corp.). The Republican nominee, Senator James P. Kem, is not popular, has no appeal to independents and is out of step with Eisenhower on foreign policy...
...most unique characteristic of Truman's mind is, perhaps, that to him every man is a personality rather than a figure, whether it be Hannibal, Stalin, Marshall, Pendergast, or the lone Socialist voter in Independence, Missouri. This gives him an unusual view of history, and a useful one. Since he interprets the past with the same vigor and simplicity as the present, he converts history into almost personal experience. His special area of interest in the last few years has, of course, been the presidency. Although not all his opinions and observations are incisive, or even strictly accurate, most...
Truman tells of an occasion when Pendergast asked him to attend a meeting of local contractors...
...turned to his friends and said 'I told you that he's the contrariest man in the county. Get out of here.' When they were gone, he said to me: 'You carry out your commitment to the voters.' I did just that . . . Pendergast was always a man of his word with...
...Pendergast could afford to be relaxed about contracts. His own Ready Mixed Concrete Co. enjoyed a virtual monopoly of this service in Kansas City and Jackson County...