Word: mcelroy
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Besides Professor Morison, the members of the expedition were: his wife Captain John W. McElroy, Herbert F. Hossmer, Jr., Richard S. Colley, Dr. Clifton W. Anderson, Kenneth R. Spear and Richard Spear...
...Saturday morning in May 1933, two young men pushed their way past the maid into the home of H. F. McElroy, Kansas City city manager and "front" for the Pendergast machine, and rushed upstairs. McElroy's daughter, Mary, was taking a bath. They shouted for her to get dressed and come out, or they would shoot through the door. Terrified, Mary obeyed. They seized her, bundled her downstairs and into...
...story was in Kansas City newspaper offices that night, but not a line of it appeared next day. So strong was the grip of the Pendergast machine that not a word about Mary McElroy's kidnapping did Kansas Citizens read until she had been ransomed by her father for $30,000, returned to him 30 hours later. But from the moment the story broke, frail-looking, emotional, motherless Mary McElroy lived in a pitiless glare of publicity...