Word: pendergasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position. Comfort for the New Deal could be found in the victory of Judge James M. Douglas of St. Louis, candidate of New Dealish Governor Stark for the State Supreme Court, by 117,000 votes over Judge James V. Billings of Kennett, candidate of non-New Dealish Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City...
During the Ethiopian War Thomas Joseph Pendergast, Democratic dictator of Kansas City, was said to have used influence in Washington to quash the proposed U. S. embargo on oil to Italy. Last week Italian Vice Consul Alessandro Savorgnan of St. Louis draped around Dictator Pendergast's pudgy neck the insignia of the Order of Commander of the Crown of Italy...
State. As the master of a solid bloc of faithful votes. Tom Pendergast has long been the No. 1 Democrat of his State. But in 1932 St. Louis' Bennett Champ Clark went to the Senate without his help and Boss Pendergast has since had to sign a working agreement to claim patronage only in the western half of the State. The truce has lately been strained, to the dis pleasure of Tom Pendergast. First strain came when young Maurice Milligan, whose Brother Jacob was defeated by Pendergast's Harry Truman for the Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney...
Although Boss Pendergast announced after the 1936 campaign that active management of his machine would thenceforth rest in the hands of Nephew James Michael Pendergast, he has by no means relinquished his duties as policy maker. Day after last week's election, Democrat Pendergast, after exclaiming that "this is a better tonic than a carload of medicine," indicated that he might be a more stub born obstacle to Democrats Clark and Roosevelt than optimists might think. Having invited reporters into his office for one of his rare interviews, the old boss announced that he was going on the warpath...
Roared Boss Tom Pendergast, jabbing the air with his mighty forefinger: "I have never done a thing in my life except support Democratic officials to the best of my ability. I have not received that kind of consideration from Governor Stark. ... If his conscience is clear, I know mine is. I now say let the river take its course...