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...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 Jim's training for the succession began in earnest. Beginning to tire of 500 conferences per day, Big Boss Tom kept his nephew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Kansas City Succession | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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