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Missouri. A Republican swell is running -for many Missourians are not proud of their native son in the White House. Harry Truman's appointed successor, hamhanded Senator Frank Briggs, will probably lose to neat, conservative, colorless James P. Kem, unless the Pendergast machine in Kansas City and the P.A.C. in St. Louis can roll up an overwhelming Democratic vote. Briggs's theme: loyalty to Truman. Kem's strategy: wham away at controls, left-wingers, Pendergastery...
...gimmick in the victory was that it could not have been accomplished without the unstinted support of an oldfashioned, ward-heeling political machine. Harry Truman had cried to Kansas City's Boss Jim Pendergast for help. Boss Jim, nephew of the late, unsavory Tom, replied in the way a boss knows best. He sent out the steamroller (and thus, in one day, brought about the rebirth of a Pendergast juggernaut). The payoff from Washington would, presumably come later...
...four brawling wards north of Kansas City's 31st Street, Pendergast lieutenants energetically rounded up 12,000 voters, who started Enos Axtell off with a whopping 10,000-vote lead. In one blue ribbon precinct 430 out of 529 registered voters obediently trooped to the polls, 395 of them for Candidate Axtell. It was a handicap Roger Slaughter could not beat, even after winning the nine other wards in the District. The final, unofficial returns: Axtell, 20,424; Slaughter...
...despite Press Secretary Charlie Ross's protestations, the President's own careful silence, no one missed the political implications. One of the first men the President spoke to as he arrived in Independence was Kansas City Boss Jim Pendergast (nephew of the notorious Tom), who had reluctantly broken an old political alliance to back the President's candidate...
...loving George, who knew everyone worth knowing in Washington, became vice president of the Home Insurance Company. The way it happened was that the company had found itself involved with Boss Pendergast in Missouri's fire insurance scandal. It needed someone like George to fan out the smoke and put Home Insurance back in good odor with Congress. George's job was Good Relations...