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When old Tom Pendergast shuffled off to jail, credit for overthrowing him was claimed by almost everybody, including Kansas City's vigorous District Attorney Maurice Milligan and Missouri's hardworking Governor Lloyd Crow Stark. Recently Governor Stark avowed his intention of going after the Democratic nomination to the U. S. Senate. His record: cleanup of the Pendergast machine...
When it was bruited about that he might also be available for other high office, might even be available as a Presidential dark horse, he made no attempt to hush the talk. So much availability nettled his boyhood friend, Senator Bennett Champ Clark, who is rather dark-horsy himself. Stark, cracked Clark, was a candidate for President, Vice President, Secretary of the Navy, War, High Commissioner to the Philippines, Ambassador to Great Britain, and "has been favorably mentioned as the Akhoond of Swat." Said Clark, he preferred a less scattered character, would therefore support the incumbent, Senator Harry Truman...
...last week came the report that Truman would not run, would withdraw in favor of the one man sure to give Stark a breathless run: popular District Attorney Maurice Milligan. His record: cleanup of the Pendergast machine...
...system of interior deportations and zonings is being organized in the depths of one of Europe's severest winters on principles and by methods that can be described only as brutal. And stark hunger stares 70% of Poland's population in the face as their reserves of foodstuffs and tools are shipped to Germany. . . ." >"No Pole may leave his home between 7 :30 p. m. and 6 a. m. During these hours the Gestapo sweeps down without warning on the unfortunate people. . .. The population do not sleep and spend the night dressed because the time limit allowed...
...their Navy would never fight away from their seabound mainland. "The Atlantic and the Pacific are of tremendous value to our defensive situation, but they are not impassable," observed George Marshall in a piece published last week. In such impassable equivocations, he and the Navy's "Betty" Stark must deal. Otherwise that peaceful ostrich, the U. S. Citizenry, might suspect that its hired fighting men are doing their bounden duty by preparing to fight anywhere on earth...