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Such was last week's score in Kansas City's municipal election. When blackjacks were pocketed and votes were counted, Kansas Citizens knew the worst: The Fusion attempt to break the rule of Boss Thomas Joseph ("Big Tom") Pendergast's Democratic machine had failed. Re-elected by a 59,566 plurality was Boss-backed Mayor Bryce Byram Smith, a mild-mannered baking company official in his spare time. Defeated was Dr. Albert Ross Hill, 64, anti-Boss Democrat, onetime (1908-20) president of the University of Missouri, holder of a dozen college degrees and author...
Thus ended Kansas City's hope of a municipal New Deal, as represented by the Citizens-Fusion ticket put forth by the National Youth Movement. Founded a year ago by a small group of young, public-spirited citizens, the National Youth Movement aimed to depose the Pendergast machine as Tammany had been deposed in New York and the Vare machine in Philadelphia...
Touchdown Clark. Goals from field--Bilodeau 2. Referee Volk. Tufts, Umpire--Pike, Vermont, Linesman--Pendergast, Colby. Time--Four 12-minute periods...
Missouri. What sort of Governor Democrat Guy Brasneld Park, 60, will make, few citizens knew last week because he had been presented to them only three weeks before the election. When Nominee Francis Murray Wilson suddenly died in the midst of the campaign, Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City picked Judge. Park, Nominee Wilson's old friend and neighbor, off the circuit bench to fill his place...
...helped found the American Legion in Paris. He practices law in St. Louis. In the primary he beat Charles M. Howell, passive Wet, who lay in a Kansas City hospital with double pneumonia as the result of too strenuous campaigning. His victory was a thumping defeat for Tom Pendergast, Democratic boss of Kansas City, whose machine, a miniature of Tammany Hall, had backed the Howell candidacy. "Boss" Pendergast used to be a wholesale liquor dealer; now he runs a ready-mixed concrete company. Once his $100,000 home was robbed, burglars taking, among $150,000 worth of other things...