Word: pendergastlies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday morning in May 1933, two young men pushed their way past the maid into the home of H. F. McElroy, Kansas City city manager and "front" for the Pendergast machine, and rushed upstairs. McElroy's daughter, Mary, was taking a bath. They shouted for her to get dressed and come out, or they would shoot through the door. Terrified, Mary obeyed. They seized her, bundled her downstairs and into...
...story was in Kansas City newspaper offices that night, but not a line of it appeared next day. So strong was the grip of the Pendergast machine that not a word about Mary McElroy's kidnapping did Kansas Citizens read until she had been ransomed by her father for $30,000, returned to him 30 hours later. But from the moment the story broke, frail-looking, emotional, motherless Mary McElroy lived in a pitiless glare of publicity...
Since Boss Tom Pendergast went to jail for income-tax evasion (TIME, May 29), the man more or less running turbid Kansas City, Mo. has been Mayor Bryce Bryan Smith. Last week Tom Pendergast's long political arm reached out of his jail cell. What was left of the Pendergast machine pulled a squeeze play in City Council, squeezed in a 73-year-old onetime insurance man named William M. Drennon as City Manager. Thus estopped in his valiant efforts to clean up dirty Kansas City, little (5 feet, 5½ inches) Mayor Smith resigned. "Hell," said...