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...part of his plan he got a job as a bartender at the quietly aristocratic Plaza, a hotel which was frequented by many rich and famous men of the day, among them Diamond Jim Brady-"an overstuffed pig, with his stickpins all in little animal shapes." O'Dwyer stayed there three years, studying shorthand in his spare time, brushing up on his Spanish, and yearning for the export business. Then came disillusionment; the export business wanted no part of a bartender...
...night he was sent to investigate a call for help in a bleak and ancient Brooklyn house. He arrived just as a woman ran out. Her half-crazed husband, with a pistol, had broken through a bedroom window, bent on killing her. The house was pitch-dark. O'Dwyer got a kerosene lamp, pushed it into the room, saw that his quarry had gotten into bed. He dived, yanked back the blankets, grabbed the man's gun hand. It was like "holding the leg of a steer." The man wrestled desperately to bring his weapon to bear...
Prosecutor O'Dwyer unmercifully, had initiated an investigation of his office. La Guardia won the election, hands down. After the votes were counted O'Dwyer went into the Army as a major in the Provost Marshal's office...
...General. But Franklin Roosevelt had no intention of letting so promising a candidate disappear. In 1944, the President wanted a man to be his eyes & ears in occupied Italy; he sent O'Dwyer to the Allied Control Commission, a brigadier general with the rank of minister...
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...