Word: pendergast
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...similar charges, of great magnitude, were being pressed in Kansas City against an even greater overlord than Tammany's Jimmy Hines. Three days after Mr. Murphy's visit, the Kansas City sensation was sprung: U. S. District Attorney Maurice M. Milligan obtained the indictment of Thomas J. Pendergast, a senior U. S. Democratic boss. Charge: Cheating the U. S. of income taxes...
Ordinarily, FBI operatives do not enter income tax cases until the Treasury's T-men (internal revenue secret agents) have finished their work. Supposition was that the FBI stepped in early on Boss Pendergast's case because he is not only old (66) but sick. The Administration had to hurry, to be sure and match Tom Dewey's Hines sensation with an even greater prosecution...
Credit for tipping President Roosevelt off personally on the case against Boss Pendergast was given to Missouri's Governor Lloyd C. Stark, handsome, 53-year-old Democrat of military background and bearing, famed for the apples ("Stark's Delicious") which his father raised before him. For alert Governor Stark a Presidential trial balloon promptly went up last week in the famed "Washington Merry-Go-Round" (syndicated column by Drew Pearson & Robert S. Allen...
Thousands of seekers after health follow the syndicated writings of high-spirited, publicity-wise Dr. Logan Clendening (Modern Methods of Treatment, The Human Body, The Care & Feeding of Adults). Few of his readers know that Dr. Clendening lives in a residential section of Kansas City, Mo. (near Boss Tom Pendergast) and that ever since last October he has been subjected to a severe strain. Last week Dr. Clendening cracked under the strain, committed a savage infraction...
When Judge Southern's turn came again, Governor Stark's demand for a Kansas City Dewey was still dangling. Attorney General McKittrick had conferred with Kansas City's Prosecutor W. W. Graves, a tame Pendergast cat, who announced that there was nothing to investigate. Judge Southern suddenly issued search warrants, sent police out raiding...