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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
Kansas City Publishers Corp.
Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on pages 4 and 8, about the "anti-machine speech" by Missouri state representative J. A. Gray broadcast "over station WOS in Jefferson City," Missouri, cut off in mid-transmission after scathing indictments of Tom Pendergast, with a copy of the speech in full. Other featured articles include: “Lunch-hooks Out of the Cookie Jar” (p. 2), about the Roosevelt administratin’s reticence to put recovery agency offices in Kansas City due to machine politics; “Sugar in Asphalt” (p. 3), about the business and city government fraud by John Pryor, "Democratic political leader and Kansas City's 'Paving King'" as a "silent partner" with Thomas Thomson in street paving and sewer construction work from 1928 to 1930 connected with the Pendergast machine; and “May We Present Lyle A. Stephenson” (p. 5), a photo and biographical article about Lyle Stephenson, an entomologist and insurance agent native to Nebraska and coming to Kansas City with hopes for "a generously endowed Natural History Museum"; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
1935-05-10
Political cartoons Advertisements Fashion plates
Future Pendergast Machine National Youth Movement Civic Research Institute Kansas City Police Department Public Works Administration University Women's Club of Kansas City Gray, J. A. Woodmansee, Joseph E. Clark, Bennett Champ Pendergast, Tom Claiborne, Leonard L. McElroy, Henry F. Higgins, Otto P. Knight, Lillie Seehorn, Thomas J. Murray, Matthew S. Stephenson, Lyle A. Kitchen, Katie Fennelly, Joseph C. McGee, Walter H.
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