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...trappings, from honest patronage to whistle-stop campaigning. A doggedly unsuccessful dirt farmer and failed haberdasher, he entered politics out of need for a job and rose from the county courthouse to the Senate clubhouse and finally the White House largely owing to the backing of T.J. Pendergast and other big-city bosses...
...Coach. You said you liked it. AssistantCoach Tim Pendergast did it. Come on, everyone'sdoing...
When Roosevelt died, the nation watched in horror as a depthless little haberdasher from Missouri, a seeming nullity out of the old Pendergast machine in Kansas City, moved into the White House. Over the years, however, Harry Truman acquired historical size and force...
Harry Truman once compared "Uncle Joe" Stalin with Tom Pendergast, the Kansas City political boss: both were wily machine politicians who could be bargained with. Every President since then has been tempted to personalize America's unwieldy struggle with the Soviet Union. Even Ronald Reagan. Before dealing with Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva, the former president of the Screen Actors Guild said he was reminded of his days dealing with the old studio moguls. Last week, awaiting the arrival of the world's most unlikely new superstar, Reagan came up with an even more fitting personal analogy. "I don't resent...
What hurt Harvard most, perhaps, were its rotating goalies, who saved less than half (11) of the number they let through (23). Still looking for the netminder to replace the graduated All-American of a year ago, Tim Pendergast, the Crimson used three goalies against Hopkins...