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...Democrats had little or no platform for the mayoralty campaign, but they did have a shapely candidate, in spite of the fact that he looked like Tammany: 51-year-old, stocky William O'Dwyer, native of Ireland (County Mayo...
...Dwyer became successively a coal passer, longshoreman, hod carrier, plasterer's helper, policeman, attorney, magistrate, juvenile-delinquency expert, county judge, district attorney. Steadily the Democratic machine had brought him along. His culminating feat: smashing Brooklyn's grubby ring of gutter killers, dubbed "Murder...
...Dwyer, personally no Tammanyite, opened his campaign, like a devout boxer who crosses himself before the bell rings, by formally disowning Tammany (see col. j). Unfortunately all his powerful friends looked like Tammany to many a New York City voter: Alfred E. Smith, Bosses Ed Flynn and Frank Kelly, Jim Farley, Christy Sullivan (the nominal Tammany leader). Certainly Tammany considered O'Dwyer its candidate. O'Dwyer tried to take the war issue out of the campaign by seconding the President's foreign policy. But to his ranks flocked Coughlinites, Bundsters, Isolationists, America-Firsters, anti-Semites, Roosevelt-haters...
Reported the august (and sometimes deadpan) New York Times: "Speaking in Tammany Hall to an audience composed almost entirely of precinct workers in the Tammany organization, District Attorney William O'Dwyer [Tammany candidate for Mayor of New York] declared last night his complete independence of political machines and political bosses...
...cynical Brooklyn voters, knowing the New Deal will be solidly behind the President's Little Flower, thought Ed Flynn was probably setting up Brooklyn's O'Dwyer just to knock him over...