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...others: Kansas City's late Tom Pendergast, Jersey City's Frank Hague, Memphis' Ed Crump...
Compared with handsome, bemedaled Colonel Paul Magloire, 43-year-old strong man of the island republic of Haiti, New Jersey's Boss Frank Hague and Kansas City's late Tom Pendergast were fumbling amateurs at the fine political art of turning out the vote. For the first time in the nation's 146-year-old history, Haitian voters went to the polls last week to choose a President by direct popular election (TIME, Oct. 9). By week's end, according to the first unofficial returns, Candidate Magloire had piled up an early total...
...Pendergast-"If he had died that summer [during a serious operation for cancer in 1936] ... he would have been remembered as the greatest boss this country ever...
...many Missouri Democrats was to ask: Who is Emery Allison? He turned out to be an Ozark country lawyer, a Baptist, Mason and Legionnaire, and the plodding, cigar-smoking, 56-year-old president pro tem of the Missouri state senate. He was also the great & good friend of Jim Pendergast, who, like his father before him, is the great & good friend of Harry Truman...
Your use of the Pendergast School graduate as a cover subject is a sure indication that your supply of subjects is practically exhausted ... I had no idea they were so scarce...