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...William Marshall Boyle to a Senate investigating committee. Many citizens mistakenly assumed that this statement by the chairman of the Democratic National Committee was a piece of pious patter. But Bill Boyle was in sober earnest. His mother is still honored in Kansas City as one of Boss Tom Pendergast's best precinct workers of the 1920s. Friends of the family, discussing Bill Boyle, say somewhat condescendingly that he is a nice, pleasant fellow; Clara, his mother, now retired, was "the politician of the family...
...PENDERGAST DEMOCRAT, MR. TRUMAN FAVORS MR. TAFT, SO THE PAPERS SAY, AS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE NEXT YEAR. AS AN UNPROFESSIONAL REPUBLICAN, I TAKE LEAVE TO FAVOR MR. TRUMAN AS THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE ON THAT SAME OCCASION...
...Pendergast has the same beer-barrel silhouette as his Uncle Tom had. But whereas Uncle Tom had cast a dark, corrupt shadow over the whole state of Missouri, Jim's shadow, even in the full glow of Harry Truman's friendship, hardly reached beyond the Jackson County line. After Uncle Tom went to prison, Jim did the best he could to keep old Tom's Kansas City machine running. His best wasn't bad enough. The Citizens' Association Reform government won control of city hall. A lot of old Pendergast lieutenants joined up with mobster...
Things began to look up for Jim Pendergast after Binaggio was murdered last April. Abruptly leaderless, the old crowd flocked back to Jim. Last week Pendergast made his biggest bid since 1940 for return to power. He lost. The reform group, pointing at the Kefauver committee's disclosures, re-elected Mayor William E. Kemp, an anti-machine Democrat, for his third term; ten of eleven major city offices went to reform candidates. Big, sad Jim Pendergast no longer cast any shadow...
...varsity 'A' summary: Foster (H) defeated Kaese, 3-0; Pendergast (UBC) defeated Clark, 3-2; Nawn (H) defeated Wightman, 3-2; Ufford (H) defeated Tompkins, 3-2; Livingston (UBC) defeated Bacon...