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When it was over, District Judge Shannon B. Charlton, a Methodist, prudently gave himself several weeks in which to prepare his decision...
Entrance to the two-year advanced course has been officially closed now for several weeks during which classes have been going on. "Qualified students may still have a chance to enter, however, if they apply at Shannon Hall in a hurry," Major E.A. Kremer, assistant professor of Air Science and Tactics, said last night...
...City in 1915, and Mother Boyle had Bill and Russ pushing doorbells and passing out handbills in the hilly Fourth Ward before they were out of high school. Theirs was a predominantly Republican district, and the few Democrats were badly split between Tom Pendergast's "goats" and Joe Shannon's "rabbits." Mother Boyle stuck loyally to the "goats," and ran her Cosmopolitan Democratic club for Tom Pendergast with a firm hand. At the big, rip-snorting Pendergast picnics at Lonejack, Mo., the Boyles got well acquainted with the Trumans, another loyal Pendergast family. Harry Truman was a Jackson...
...moved again: this time to the job of assistant prosecuting attorney in the county courthouse, the last Pendergast citadel. It was dull work; his main assignment was to take confessed criminals before the court to enter guilty pleas. "To my knowledge," said Bill's good friend, Lawyer Shannon Douglas, later, "Bill never tried a single case in Kansas City. What that boy needed...
...cellars of both the Annex and Shannon were flooded as well as the section of Boylston Street in front of Kirkland B-entry...