Truman, Harry S
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...politics and, with support from the Democratic machine of Thomas J. Pendergast , was...Pendergast. By 1940 the Pendergast machine had been broken, and Truman...opponent, Thomas E. Dewey , and Democratic majorities swept into the House...