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...political repercussions were even hotter. Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri-who moved into City Hall when Mayor William O'Dwyer prudently went off to be Ambassador to Mexico-was obviously praying that the scandal would help him get elected for good in November. The appointment of Murphy was a feather in his cap. But he had plenty of competition...
This week the grand jury demanded overhaul of the city's police force. Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, with a calculating eye on the coming election, quickly obliged, starting with the ouster of ex-Mayor Bill O'Dwyer's police commissioner, William P. O'Brien. Out of thin air he produced a new commissioner who pleased the jurors just fine: hard-hitting, splendidly mustachioed Thomas F. Murphy, recently resigned federal prosecutor, who had won the conviction of Alger Hiss...
...Confirmed (42-22) the nomination of New York's ex-Mayor Bill O'Dwyer as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico...
...left behind him his one-sentence resignation, effective as of Oct. 2 so that he could qualify under the law for a $6,000-a-year pension (payable to Mrs. O'Dwyer at his death). He also left a city somewhat groggy, after, his erratic administration, and a sizzling political situation...
Until O'Dwyer quit, it was understood by all that Governor Tom Dewey would retire to private life, leaving the field to his lieutenant governor, 74-year-old Joseph R. Hanley. But Republicans knew that a New York mayoralty election would rouse up an otherwise apathetic, big-city, Democratic vote; as a matter of fact that was one of the reasons why O'Dwyer had been encouraged to resign. In some panic Republicans looked again to Dewey. But there stood Hanley, defiantly repeating his intention to run. All of a sudden, Hanley gave...