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Title: Tracy Houses Need More Work
Description: Article reviews problems still existing with two houses on Tracy Avenue that had combined costs of over one million dollars for restoration. The renovations had been under the direction of the Housing and Economic Development Financial Corp.
Date: 2005-07-06
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: The Senator from Pendergast: Harry Truman, "Boss Tom," and the Pendergast Machine
Description: Article explores the relationship between Harry Truman and political boss Tom Pendergast, and attempts to answer the question: "How can a man lay claim to honest and diligence while owing his very career to a man who used the law as a mere tool for self-aggrandisement?" While Truman was known as an incorruptable, reformer during his tenure as a presiding judge in Jackson County, he owed his budding political career to "Boss Tom" and rewarded him by distributing patronage positions to Pendergast supporters.
Date: 2015-08
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City Blacks, Harry Truman and the Pendergast Machine
Description: Article explores the political aspects of race relations in Kansas City during the 1920s and 1930s in respect to the Pendergast regime and Harry Truman's place in the political scene. Includes photos of Truman, Thomas R. Marks, Miles Bulger, Tom Pendergast, and Bernard F. Dickmann, and a drawing of Nelson C. Crews.
Date: 1974-10-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Opposition to the Pendergast Machine, 1925-1934
Description: Thesis about the Tom Pendergast machine, starting with 1925 and including a large section on Rabbi Mayerberg's "crusade" against the machine.
Date: 1955
Object Type: Thesis/Dissertation

Title: The Ghost of Tom Pendergast
Description: Article about Tom Pendergat's influence on local and national politics. Also discussed is the Pendergast Organization's Ten-Year Plan and the dark side of the Pendergast era. Includes images.
Date: 2008-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

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