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...mind. They also knew that similar charges, of great magnitude, were being pressed in Kansas City against an even greater overlord than Tammany's Jimmy Hines. Three days after Mr. Murphy's visit, the Kansas City sensation was sprung: U. S. District Attorney Maurice M. Milligan obtained the indictment of Thomas J. Pendergast, a senior U. S. Democratic boss. Charge: Cheating the U. S. of income taxes...
...Maurice Milligan it was sweet revenge, because Boss Pendergast tried to block his reappointment as U. S. District Attorney last year. For everyone ever connected with Boss Pendergast it was a stinker. The indictment blackened some clouds already hanging dark over the Boss ever since Missouri Circuit Judge Allen C. Southern began to root out gambling and vice in Pendergastland (TIME, Feb. 6). The Boss had known the blow-off was coming: last month his nephew Jim Pendergast and Police Chief Otto Higgins tramped up & down Washington trying to find some one to call off Maurice Milligan...
When he learned that students had invited Secretary Perkins to the college, Geneva's psalm-singing* President McLeod Milligan Pearce last week hastily canceled the invitation, explained: "If Miss Perkins were not particularly identified with a labor movement, we would have been very glad to have...
...expected to represent radio views of their respective groups. Tie votes are broken by deliberation of a committee which includes American Legion Auxiliary Radio Committee Chairman Mrs. William H. Corwith, Child Study Association's Miss Josette Frank, former W. N. R. C. Chairman Mrs. Harold Vincent Milligan and W. N. R. C. Chairman Mme Yolanda Mero-Irion...
...Clark went to the Senate without his help and Boss Pendergast has since had to sign a working agreement to claim patronage only in the western half of the State. The truce has lately been strained, to the dis pleasure of Tom Pendergast. First strain came when young Maurice Milligan, whose Brother Jacob was defeated by Pendergast's Harry Truman for the Senate, was appointed U. S. Attorney for the western district of Missouri with Senator Clark's help and began the campaign to clean up the city's voting which culminated in the celebrated indictment...