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...Pendergast boys, brawny Irish Democrats, got their start in Kansas City politics 40 years ago. Easy-going Brother Michael was content to spend his life holding minor city jobs, running the rough-&-tumble Tenth Ward. Brother James, a saloonkeeper, took the First Ward for his domain. Brother Thomas was the ambitious one. Starting out under Jim, who died in 1911, he thrust up and out until he was undisputed boss not only of Kansas City but of all Missouri, and as such a prime power in the national Democracy...
Like all forward-looking dynasties, the House of Pendergast early chose an heir. He was Michael's son, "Young Jim." The War had interrupted his law schooling, but overseas service in the 103rd Field Artillery was not bad training for a rising Pendergast. For Pendergast "Goats," there was still plenty of fistfighting to be done with Shannon "Rabbits" when Young Jim started at the bottom as precinct worker and pollbook carrier in his father's Tenth Ward. An apt pupil, he was ready to take over the ward when his father died in 1929. That year Young...
Last week squat, roly-poly Tom Pendergast, Democratic Boss of Kansas City, was in Manhattan having his heart ailment treated by a specialist. Meanwhile he was, as usual, the prime issue when Missouri held its primaries. On an anti-Pendergast platform William Hirth, longtime head of the Missouri Farmers' Association, ran hard & fast after the Democratic nomination for Governor, but not hard & fast enough to prevent Boss Pendergast's man. Major Lloyd Crow Stark of Louisiana. Mo. from winning, 3-to-1. Even the fact that Major Stark, a famed nurseryman whose family originated "Stark's Delicious...
That did not end the Pendergast issue. In the face of the biggest Democratic primary vote in history, Jesse W. Barrett, Missouri's onetime Attorney General who last week won the Republican nomination for Governor, announced...
...Missouri will beat the Pendergast slate in November by a sizable majority...