The scene was the senior civics class of Washington's McKinley High School.
"Does anybody know," asked the teacher, "who put Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City behind the bars?"
Nobody answered.
"You all ought to know it was Attorney General Murphy and J. Edgar Hoover." Seventeen-year-old Robert Irey reddened, said nothing. The Ireys don't talk much. But he knew very well who was responsible for jailing Tom Pendergast. Why, J. Edgar Hoover had never even heard of the case until the four-year accumulation of convicting evidence had been turned over to Department of Justice lawyers....
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