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When old Tom Pendergast shuffled off to jail, credit for overthrowing him was claimed by almost everybody, including Kansas City's vigorous District Attorney Maurice Milligan and Missouri's hardworking Governor Lloyd Crow Stark. Recently Governor Stark avowed his intention of going after the Democratic nomination to the U. S. Senate. His record: cleanup of the Pendergast machine.

When it was bruited about that he might also be available for other high office, might even be available as a Presidential dark horse, he made no attempt to hush the talk. So much availability nettled his boyhood friend, Senator Bennett Champ Clark, who is rather dark-horsy himself. Stark, cracked Clark, was a candidate for President, Vice President, Secretary of the Navy, War, High Commissioner to the Philippines, Ambassador to Great Britain, and "has been favorably mentioned as the Akhoond of Swat." Said Clark, he preferred a less scattered character, would therefore support the incumbent, Senator Harry Truman.

But last week came the report that Truman would not run, would withdraw in favor of the one man sure to give Stark a breathless run: popular District Attorney Maurice Milligan. His record: cleanup of the Pendergast machine.

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