Word: pendergasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...Plan, hoping to show it up as a ridiculous racket and thus deflate its importance in the November elections. As the spear point of the counterattack, Representative Bell could afford to take the risk of sponsoring the Townsend inquiry because back of him in Kansas City is Boss Tom Pendergast with his redoubtable political machine. To other Congressmen their lesser risk seemed well worth taking: Jasper Bell, at the worst, would probably be able to discredit the Townsend Plan by showing that a lot of oldsters' dues money was going down a hopeless drain...
...merchants for that part of a cent not kept for the sales tax. Missourians found their pockets bulging with caps enough to start dairies. One dairy company delivered milk sealed with one-mill tokens. Storekeepers with rubber stamps printed advertising on the tokens' backs. Republicans scribbled on them: "Pendergast Money," "Vote G.O.P. and End the Sales...
...Boss Pendergast's formula for treating the people right: "I am honest with the people. I gave them a good government. I take care of the poor. I give out all the jobs I can find. I never ask a man his politics, but I do him a good turn if I can. When I have treated the people right, they will vote my way on election day-that is, 75% of them will. The other 25% aren't worth bothering about...