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Vor 4 Tagen · Dive into the intriguing life of Tom Pendergast, a notorious Kansas City politician who led the infamous Pendergast machine. Discover how he wielded power through corruption, bribery, and ...
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- Underworld Diary
7. Mai 2024 · It’s President Harry S. Truman’s 140th birthday and we’re ready to celebrate the KC-local with a very special lesson... on crime, corruption, and the former president’s personal friend, “Boss” Tom Pendergast.
Vor einem Tag · At Fort Sill, Truman met Lieutenant James M. Pendergast, nephew of Tom Pendergast, a Kansas City political boss, a connection that had a profound influence on Truman's later life. Truman in uniform, c. 1918. In mid-1918, about one million soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) were in France.
15. Mai 2024 · The big-city boss – “If I were a Republican,” said Kansas City’s Tom Prendergast, “they’d call me a leader” – not only exemplified the strengths and weaknesses of Irish machine politics, but was influential in forming coalitions that reached out to other ethnic groups, helped build the modern Democratic Party, and ...
8. Mai 2024 · on crime, corruption, and the former president’s personal friend, “Boss” Tom Pendergast. The origins of Tom’s Town In 1910, following the death of his brother, Thomas Joseph Pendergast took over the family’s West Bottoms tavern and discovered that politics kept the money flowing better than liquor did.
Vor 15 Stunden · Bad Kansas City is similar to these other titles in that it is set in a dark, gritty, almost post-apocalyptic version of 1930s Kansas City that is under the control of a demon who has possessed the body of a real-world political boss named Tom Pendergast. In this setting, the power of the political boss extends not only to local politics but also to crime both mundane and supernatural causing ...
3. Mai 2024 · Political boss Tom Pendergast loved betting on them. Pendergast’s gambling addiction was so severe that he and associates opened the Riverside Jockey Club just north of Kansas City in 1928. In one month, Boss Tom lost $600,000 at the track.
