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| Title | Citizens v. Boss: Citizens Win |
| Abstract | History of the extreme turnaround in organization of Kansas City's government, from 1931 when $10 million of $32 million in bond improvements were "utilized illegally for private gain," to 1954 with Kansas City declared "winner of the All-America Cities Award." Description of the roles of numerous Kansas City workers in the 1930s clean-up campaigns, including Harold Luhnow, "a dynamo behind much of the organized opposition to the [Boss Tom Pendergast] machine" and "president of the far-flung William Volker and Company enterprises." |
| Notes | Page 466: "Other prominent workers [in the 1930s anti-Pendergast campaigns, besides C. Paul Leathers and his wife, and Rabbi Samuel Mayerberg] included Kansas City's Mayor William E. Kemp and his wife, the late Margaret J. Kemp; Rev. D. A. Holmes, a Negro minister; Judge George S. Montgomery; Dr. A. Ross Hill; D. S. Adams; Joseph C. Fennelly; Harold W. Luhnow; Kenneth E. Midgley; Colonel Frederick Whitten; former Mayor John B. Gage and his wife, Marjorie Gage; Porter T. Hall; Charles Daniels; Russell F. Greiner; Hal Jones and the author." |
| Author | Lyman Field
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| Date | October//1954 |
| Source | National Municipal Review |
| Location | SC 73: Collection of Magazine Article Photocopies |
| Volume | 43 |
| Number | 9 |
| Page | 464-469, 507-508 |
| Local Subject | Political Machines
Organized Crime
Luhnow, Harold W.
Election Frauds
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| Illustrations | No |
| Item Type | Magazine Article
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 101202 |
| CONTENTdm number | 12928 |
