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Bravo to Artist Artzybasheff for his excellent background for the O'Dwyer cover! And a big Bronx Cheer to whoever penned the cover story. He should go back to Lower Slobovia...
Many thanks for the colorful O'Dwyer saga. Again the ever-recurring Horatio Alger story dominates the American scene...
Your reference to New York City as "a hell of a town," and placing that label on the cover of TIME [June 7] under the picture of the Honorable William O'Dwyer, is in very bad taste...
This not necessarily pertinent information is a fragment of the mountainous residue of facts left over from The Big Bonanza, TIME'S cover story on Mayor O'Dwyer and his New York City in the June 7 issue. All of us here at TIME who have to live and work in the city and its environs were very much interested in what the story had to say and, judging from the volume of incoming mail, so were a great many TIME readers elsewhere...
...first, like many other tenants, Salvatore had tried desperately to save his modest enterprise. He appealed to Mayor William O'Dwyer. The mayor referred him to Commissioner Robert Moses. "I wrote Moses, but no answer," said Salvatore sadly. Now he is resigned, but hopeful. As the spinning steel ball brought down the buildings around him last week, Salvatore said: "We're good, quiet people, all working people. Mostly Italians, but there's a Jewish fella and an Irish fella. We always get along. No fights. Never need the police. So maybe they let us stay...