Word: pendergast
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...Unofficial Capital." Then he turned his attention to the main business of the day. It was mayoralty election day in Kansas City. The Star's old hands, who remembered the late Tom Pendergast's heyday (1911-39), could hardly believe it: there was not one report of a head-cracking at the polls. The voting was light...
Well might "MacArthur wade ashore at San Simeon when he comes home," or at any other point on our shores; does Editor Edward T. Leech of the Pittsburgh Press [TIME, March 15] consider the Hearstian kiss of death any more lethal than the Pendergast kiss of death...
...Kansas City's once-mighty Democratic machine, which used to get out the votes for Boss Tom Pendergast, was unable to persuade any "high-type" candidate to run on its ticket, meekly threw in with Reform Mayor William E. Kemp...
...Harry Truman have it. The most telling attacks centered on the President's tax proposals. House Ways & Means Chairman Harold Knutson, who already has his own $5.6 billion tax-reduction bill on the fire, cried: "My God, I didn't know inflation had gone that far. Tom Pendergast paid only $2 a vote and now Truman proposes to pay $40." Cracked House Majority Leader Charles Halleck: "What, no mule...
...South's most lucid and least chauvinistic editorialists. To replace him at Charlotte, the News picked 47-year-old William M. Reddig, literary and feature editor of the Kansas City Star. Bald Bill Reddig, an all-round newsman for 25 years, has a book about the Pendergast machine (Tom's Town) coming out in the fall. As a Democrat on a Republican paper, he always wanted to write editorials, jumped at the chance when the Democratic finger of the Charlotte News beckoned...