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...Mayor William O'Dwyer's school-teaching sister, Kathleen, flew home to Ireland from New York, flew straight into trouble. Seized by Irish customs men: 500-odd pairs of undeclared nylons. Back in New York the Mayor's brother, Paul (who said the nylons were for a sister who runs a drygoods store), assured the press that he was sure Kathleen had really meant to pay duty...
About 70,000 warehousemen were made idle at once. Many industries, including the immense garment and printing trades, air-braked to a creep by lack of supplies and glutted by unmovable finished products, served notice of shutdowns if the tieup continued. Mayor William O'Dwyer stepped in with a settlement proposal- the magic 18½-an-hour raise. But the drivers, against the urgings of their union leaders, tossed it back to him as unacceptable...
Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York, who has received shamrocks from the Lord Mayor of Dublin, a painting from the Lord Mayor of Cork and Holland gin from the Burgomaster of Amsterdam, was still taking it-this time a dozen Banbury buns from the Lord Mayor of Banbury...
...come true. He had: 1) 90% of the necessary property (in the heart of Flushing, near the site of the last World's Fair), 2) the financial backing of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 3) the unofficial blessing of New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer...
...Meadmen who offered him the convention chairmanship for his support, Jim Farley gave a curt no. New York City's Mayor William O'Dwyer said yes. So did Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt to an invitation to be the convention keynoter. If the LaGuardia boom held up, the convention at Albany on Sept. 3 would probably touch off some fancy fireworks...