Like Harry Truman, he was a product of Kansas City ... He was a police-department secretary in 1939 when his boss followed old Tom Pendergast to jail. Boyle took over the police department ...

In May 1948, as President Harry Truman was gearing up for his campaign ... and finally as an effective county official under Tom Pendergast, the plutocratic boss of Kansas City politics whose ...

Pendergast, of Kansas City ... The Chicago Sun’s Tom Reynolds reported that Harry Truman had told Democratic leaders that he did not want to run in 1948. The President laughed off the ...