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...serves for 34 years in the minor offices of a city government is lucky when he dies if he receives a stick of type in a local newspaper. But when Michael J. Pendergast, the peak of whose official career was to be City Clerk of Kansas City, Mo., died last week he re- ceived sticks of type across the continent and many politicians said, "Poor Mike...
...Michael Pendergast was the son of James Pendergast, grand old man of Democracy in Kansas City. Before he was 21 Michael had begun drawing city pay. In 34 years, by the estimates, he drew $60,000 for his municipal services. But that was not what made him famous. His brother's political power descended in large part to another brother Thomas J., and Michael became right hand...
...Boss Tom Pendergast is a character. Chief proprietor of the "Ready-Mixed Concrete Co.," he has provided and hauled much of Kansas City's north end, not to mention providing most of the politics of the city and environs as leader of "He Goat" (local equivalent of Tammany Hall). Once when Tom and his family were away, robbers looted his $100,000 home of $150,000 worth of jewels and clothes including 480 pairs of silk stockings bought for his daughter Marceline's trousseau. However, Tom was in Manhattan at the time, and was reported to have...
...loud and doleful need the cries no longer be. For pause but a moment to think: Was there aught in all the lectures of this half year that merited as much as mention in an exam? J. Pendergast Elliott...
...Cluett-Gohdes Sever 6 Goodspeed-Koch Sever 7 Lockwood-Potts Sever 3 Pratt-Young Sever 11 Fine Arts 1a Fogg Lect. Rm. Fine Arts 2b Fogg Small Rm. French 1, I, II, III Prof, Hawkins, 1 Sever 24 Mr. Kelsey, 2 Sever 20 Mr. Penny, 3 Adams to Pendergast Sever 19 Rote to Viehe Sever 24 German 8 Sever 2 German 25a Allen-Magill Sever 35 Magowan Zimmerman Sever 36 Government 4 Sem. Mus. 1 Greek B II Sever 30 History 7 Emerson J History 13a Bon-Kirmayer Emerson A Lerer-Wright Emerson F History 56 Harvard 2 Italian...