Word: pendergast
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...addition to his wealth of purely French material, Author Brogan draws constantly and easily on analogies and contrasts from British and U.S. history and characteristics (he is probably one of the few English scholars who can quote, virtually in the same breath, from addresses by Montaigne and Boss Pendergast...
...1920s, Julia Lee was singing the same kind of songs with the late Benny Moten's band in Kansas City. Count Basie played the piano. During the depression Julia went to work at $12 a week in Milton's Taproom. In the rowdy days of the Pendergast era, Julia sang ribald ditties like Two Old Maids in a Folding Bed and The Fuller Brush Man. But Kansas City is cleaner now, and so are Julia's lyrics. Now she does songs like Stormy Weather and Night...
Albert L. Reeves Jr., 40, tall, solemn, Kansas City, Mo. Republican who trounced Enos A. Axtell, the Pendergast candidate raised to temporary notoriety by Harry Truman's endorsement last summer. An ex-lieutenant colonel of engineers and onetime speech teacher at Texas' Baylor University, Al Reeves is the son of a famed federal judge who indicted scores of Pendergast lieutenants for election fraud...
...biggest flop was the Kansas City machine. Scrapped for junk after Uncle Tom Pendergast went to jail in 1941, the steamroller had been repaired by Nephew Jim. It looked good for a while last summer, but last week, the voters overturned it. It not only failed to elect Harry Truman's Enos Axtell, it lost its two best patronage jobs, including the presiding judgeship of the County Court (in which Harry Truman had begun his rise...
...Special in Independence, Mo. an expressman called: "Hello, you old goat." Replied the President of the U.S.: "You're a long-eared rabbit." Strangers might have been shocked at the exchange. But Harry Truman and the expressman were merely greeting each other as old political opponents of the Pendergast-Shannon ("Goats" v. "Rabbits")* Democratic rivalry in Kansas City...