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...reckoning in a U. S. district court as a tax-dodger this week came Kansas City, Mo.'s sick Boss Tom Pendergast. His power to make Missouri Governors and U. S. Senators had failed to unmake charges that he evaded Federal income taxes on $443,550, allegedly took $315,000 of that sum in slush from insurance companies (TIME, April...
...When Tom Pendergast appeared in court with Tom Jr., his nephew James, and two attorneys, his mind was made up, his face was flushed. With what dignity remained to him, he took a seat before Federal Judge Merrill E. Otis, let his lawyers speak for him: guilty on both counts...
Kansas City and the U. S. then learned how rich, mighty Tom Pendergast got into so queasy a mess. According to the prosecution, Boss Tom wagered $2,000,000, lost $600,000 on horse races in 1935 alone. "It has been a mania with him," said Defense Attorney (and Democratic County Chairman) John G. Madden. Lawyer Madden pleaded heart trouble as reason for a light sentence: "Imprisonment would mean death. He can't survive if he enters a cell . . . . Here we have death in life. . . . I ask the utmost clemency...
Prosecutor Maurice Milligan declared that Tom Pendergast since 1927 had evaded taxes on $1,240,000, did not ask utmost severity (ten years in prison, $20,000 in fines). Judge Otis leniently ordered Defendant Pendergast to pay $10,000, serve 15 months (plus a suspended sentence of three years, five years on probation). If Tom Pendergast lives and behaves, he may have to spend only twelve months in Leavenworth Penitentiary, 40 miles from the city he no longer rules...
...Moines (to postmasters): "Everything we do should be calculated to assist and encourage private enterprise." Crossing Missouri, Jim Farley listened closely to what people had to say about Democrat Lloyd C. Stark, fair-haired reform Governor. He was careful to avoid Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, upon whom Governor Stark sicked Attorney-General Murphy and got him indicted (TIME, April 17). In Kansas, which went Republican last year, Jim Farley got right down to the grassroots, motored from Salina to Topeka with stops at a dozen towns. Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona were on his course, then California, where...