1,500 miles away from New York, another jazz scene was developing. Kansas City was a major riverboat, railroad and slaughterhouse center, and had been a wide-open town since the 1890s. By 1926 the city councilman ______________ maneuvered one of his minions, Henry F. McElroy, into the post of city manager and struck a deal with mob boss Johnny Lazia (The "Al Capone of Kansas City") to run the police force. This made _______ control of Kansas City politics complete.