Word: townes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Candidate Dewey had hustled out from New York for a whirlwind tour. At way stations, he clambered out to address swarms of schoolkids, talked to S.R.O. audiences in small-town theaters. His target was the Administration's foreign policy: "We must not allow a weak, incompetent and wavering Administration to bungle us into war." In Milwaukee, where he posed with the leader of the oompah German band, no one missed his jab at MacArthur: "This is not a war crisis-it is a peace crisis. Military genius, no matter how excellent, is not the answer." At Eau Claire...
...Association, a loose fusion of anti-Pendergast Democrats, yeasty Republicans and independents, held together by the Star's backing. What was left of Old Tom's once mighty machine, now run with little enthusiasm by his nephew Jim, had taken its fifth straight election beating from the town's "good deeders."* Kansas City's reform government seemed safe for a while...
Wide-Open Cow Town. The Kansas City on which Roy Roberts shines has changed in appearance only slightly in recent years, but it has changed its character considerably. Kansas City grew big and rich on the nation's appetite for meat and bread and for the West's desires for the East's calicos and gadgets. But Kansas City also grew famed among U.S. cities for its sin. The cow town became a little Paris, a wide-open playground for cattlemen, drummers, oil wildcatters, and-somewhat later-glad-handing U.S. conventiongoers...
After Tom Pendergast got his grip on the city administration, its seamy side got much more national attention than its solid core of respectability and its increasing commercial importance. During Pendergast's reign, the town was a free-&-easy capital of grifters, gamblers, gangsters and striptease grinders. In no other city in the U.S. were vice and gambling so well protected. When the Boss needed money, his boys put a deeper bite on the brothel-keepers, bookies and crapshooters. Tom Pendergast, who made his town a trap for suckers, turned out to be one of the biggest suckers himself...
Many Kansas Citians, always more than a little envious of St. Louis' maturity and greater size (by 366,000), thought all this high-bucking naughtiness good business; it brought visitors and dollars. Besides, the machine was building up the town. The Star, which always fought Pendergast politically, treated him personally with respect. It reported his comings & goings in the society columns, recorded his growing prowess in Democratic national affairs...