Word: pendergast
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...thought I would see in my life." Answering a question about the Kansas City vote frauds (TIME, June 16), he took a swipe at Harry Truman: "It is a national story-one of the most important in the nation today." Complimenting Kansas City on coming to grips with the Pendergast machine, he said: "With the help of the Kansas City Star, you have been able to bring good government back to this city, and that's some achievement...
...that was not all. Crowed the G.O.P.'s spokesman: "We're going to hand him some tough legislation on Communists in government and dare him to veto. We're going to give him some trouble on his Pendergast associations and the Kansas City frauds. Now it's our turn...
...Hotel Muehlebach suite, thieves entered the Jackson County courthouse in downtown Kansas City. They blasted open the election board's vault with nitroglycerin, stole most of the grand jury's evidence: ballots, poll books and tally sheets. Cried Missouri's Republican state chairman: "The Pendergast machine under the protection of Harry S. Truman is as rampant and vicious as it was when directed by Harry Truman's mentor, Tom Pendergast...
...three-way race for the Democratic senatorial nomination, he ran a close second to Political Unknown Harry Truman (who won with overwhelming Pendergast machine support in Kansas City...
...Arthur Capper, Clyde Reed, all the congressmen and the Governor all wrapped up together. The State of Kansas is exactly what the Star wants it to be; it won't change until the Star decides it's time." The Star lived in the same city as Tom Pendergast and his machine, and respectfully recorded his comings & goings in the society columns. Then in 1936 the Star started his downfall with an exposure of vote padding...