The MTA boss told agency staff to stop trashing ideas to give riders a break on fares and improve service “out-of-hand,” according to an emailed memo obtained by the Daily News. MTA off… ...

The Pendergast name carries different meanings in Kansas City. For some residents, it recalls the freewheeling “Paris of the Plains” era, when Boss Tom’s machine kept liquor flowing and ...

The former Jackson Democratic Club building — from which machine boss Tom Pendergast influenced politics in Kansas City and much of Missouri during the 1920s and 1930s, and which many referred ...

Marceline is well aware of Tom's past. Tom Pendergast was a political boss who ran KC in the 1920s and 1930s. President Harry S. Truman speaking with Tom Pendergast.

Boss Tom Pendergast is a character. Chief proprietor of the “Ready-Mixed Concrete Co.,” he has provided and hauled much of Kansas City’s north end, not to mention providing most of the ...

Boss Tom Pendergast, having been ill for more than five months, announced that he was turning over control of his organization to his nephew James who had done so well during the campaign as boss ...

“That looks like Tom Pendergast,” he thought. The infamous political boss , or someone very similar, was smoking a cigarette (with a holder) and surveying some horses in a rural yard.

Tom Pendergast was a political boss who controlled Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri, during the mid 1920s to the late 1930s. Mr.

Political boss Tom Pendergast loved betting on them. Pendergast’s gambling addiction was so severe that he and associates opened the Riverside Jockey Club just north of Kansas City in 1928.