Word: pendergasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kicking Around. Besides hunting Manhattan's murderous Racketeer Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter (in a race with Republican District Attorney Tom Dewey) and other Public Enemies, Mr. Murphy's men are also hounding down Louisiana's corrupt Democratic politicos. Having convicted Kansas City's Democratic Boss Pendergast and indicted Philadelphia's Republican Publisher Moses ("Moe") Annenberg for income-tax evasion, having prosecuted Federal Judge Martin Manton for "selling justice" in Manhattan and proceeded against big-shot Lawyers Louis Levy and Paul Hahn for their dealings with Judge Manton (rulings on their disbarment await the outcome of Judge...
...happier than John Edgar Hoover, chief policeman of the land, who has found in Attorney General Frank Murphy the perfect, implacable, incorruptible yet deferent boss. Mr. Murphy takes Mr. Hoover with him on major punitive expeditions, such as the one to Kansas City to "get" Boss Thomas J. Pendergast. Mr. Murphy encourages Mr. Hoover to step out vigorously on lines of his own, as any smart policeman likes...
...Neutrality war between President and Congress. It also opened up a new political vista. Mentioned to fill the Navy vacancy, or the No. 2 job there after moving up Acting Secretary Charles Edison, was Missouri's Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, newly famed for smacking down villainous Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City (TIME, April 17, et seq.). Mr. Stark, an Annapolis graduate, is now high on the White House's list of 1940 prospects. Calling him for duty at Washington would be one way of building him up nationally. Last week, with a band and a trainload...
...Pendergast, jailed for income tax fraud, was politi cal boss...
...Vandenberg and Farley. 2. Hopkins and Lodge. 4. Hull and Taft. 3. Pendergast and Hines. 5. Garner and Dewey...