Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor of New York he is almost the antithesis of the man he succeeded. La Guardia, the imaginative, tireless, dictatorial little crusader, was also a spiteful petulant exhibitionist with a passion for speeding through the city in police cars and making faces at cameramen. At 57, Bill O'Dwyer is a calm, controlled and sentimental man; when his temper rises he talks bluntly and profanely, but softly and with a cop's cold and quiet...
When La Guardia decided to retire after the war there was only one real candidate for mayor: General Bill O'Dwyer. But he refused to run except on his own terms. When Tammany and the borough bosses pressed him for promises of patronage, he went stubbornly off to California. He stayed there until they capitulated. He was elected by a landslide plurality of 685,000 votes...
Incubator Baby. As mayor, Bill O'Dwyer governs more people than live in many a sovereign nation. New York is still a melting pot. It has more Irish (500,000) than Dublin, more Jews (2,000,000) than Palestine, almost as many Italians (1,095,000) as Rome. It has 412,000 Poles, 57,000 Czechs, 54,000 Norwegians, 53,000 Greeks. Half a million Negroes are jammed into New York, alongside almost a quarter-million Puerto Ricans. Mayor O'Dwyer can never be free of the fear of a bloody riot in Harlem. He has other enormous...
...outmoded mechanism-or an incurable growth. It had burgeoned into its present, enormous, throbbing form through three great influences-its port, its position as the financial center of the nation, and the great waves of immigration from Europe. All had declined in importance. Was New York going downhill? To Bill O'Dwyer-and to millions of his fellow citizens-the mere suggestion would be blasphemy...
...Manhattan, Master Tapster Bill Robinson got a 70th-birthday cake (see cut), a Broadway blowout, a cruise party up the Hudson, a watch, and plaster casts of his feet, which he examined and pronounced authentic ("Got the bunions and all"). In Tokyo, General Douglas MacArthur gave the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post an autographed picture of himself...