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...Pendergast- One of the best machines in the U. S. is that well-oiled engine with which Thomas Joseph Pendergast rules the destinies of Kansas City and Jackson County, Mo. Last August this rotund boss got the Democratic nomination for Missouri's seat in the U. S. Senate for one of his boys, County Judge Harry S. Truman. His only obstacle in putting Harry in the Senate was the way stand-pat Republican Senator Patterson kept raking up the five bodies of the victims of Kansas City's year-and-a-half-old Union Station massacre...
...Pendergast and his machine went out to show what they could do. As it happened their efforts were not really necessary. St. Louis, normally Republican, gave Democrat Truman a 50,000 majority; other sections of the State added another 75,000. According to census figures 62½% of Missouri's population is old enough to vote and Kansas City has about 400,000 inhabitants. Kansas City turned up with 248,000 registered voters-62% of its total population. A few more thousands on the voting lists and it would have looked as if something was crooked. On election...
...last month did Federal or State officers have a shred of courtworthy evidence in the Union Station case. Then police picked up a sniveling little gangster named Michael LaCapra, questioned him about the death last July of John Lazia, late first lieutenant of Democratic Boss Thomas J. ("Big Tom") Pendergast (TIME, July 23). To their surprise La Capra began talking about the Union Station killings. By last week they had pumped the following story out of him : On the day that Runaway Frank Nash was taken prisoner in Hot Springs, Ark., his friends got in touch with a gangster...
...bosses who can stand and deliver a State election as Boies Penrose in Pennsylvania or Tom Taggart in Indiana did in their day. Last week a primary showed that Missouri could still lay claim to such an oldtime boss in the person of "Big Tom" Pendergast, master of Kansas City and mixer of most of that city's concrete...
Murdered. John Lazia, 37, North Side Italian political boss of Kansas City, a ranking lieutenant of Missouri Democratic Boss Thomas Joseph ("Big Tom") Pendergast; by two unidentified men wielding a machine-gun and a shotgun; in Kansas City. Lazia's underworld activities were chiefly characterized by his attempts to prevent major crimes and keep outside gunmen from Kansas City. His followers planned a $40,000 funeral...