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Title
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Kansas City Kitty
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Description
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Story about the reform of the city payroll and balancing of the budget after Pendergast's "misrule."
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Date
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1940-12-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas City Surveys Public Works Possibilities
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Description
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Drawings of proposed building and landscaping improvements for the city government Public Works concerns, such as boulevards, Municipal Stadium and Airport, etc.
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Date
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1945-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Everything's Changed Now
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Description
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Article about the cleaning-up of the city government finances by city manager L. P. Cookingham following the Pendergast era.
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Date
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1949-07
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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What's the Score in Kansas City ?
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Description
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Article about the legal legitimacy of the city administration under L. P. Cookingham, contrasting it with the Tom Pendergast period of corruption, vice, and gambling.
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Date
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1949-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A City Statesman
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Description
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Brief complimentary article of the virtues of "the city's first real manager," L. P. Cookingham.
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Date
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1950-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Planning Progress, 1943
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Description
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Report of planning activities for the city of Kansas City, Missouri, prepared by the City Plan Commission in 1943. The report covers the following topics: interregional highways, neighborhood playgrounds, special reports, airport studies, post-war position, zoning board assistance, neighborhood analysis, population studies, economic base, public relations, citizens planning council, and goals. The final section of the report is addressed to the mayor and city council members and was prepared by City Manager L. P. Cookingham.
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Date
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1943
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Object Type
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Report
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Title
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Inside Story of Kansas City
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Description
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Address by Cookingham before the National Municipal League in Boston on November 23, 1948, concerning the city's recovery from political "bossism."
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Date
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1948-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Politics of Reform: Kansas City's Municipal Government, 1925-1950
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Description
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Dissertation toward a doctorate degree from the University of Chicago about the city government of Kansas City during the "council-manager" period, the first half of which served as "a symbol of municipal corruption," and the second half of which served as "a model, in many ways, of civic reform and 'nonpartisan' government."
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Date
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1956
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Object Type
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Book
