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...rnberg of 1934 faded from the screen and the lights of Nürnberg, 1945, went up. Colonel John Harlan Amen, who once helped Bill O'Dwyer clean up Brooklyn's Murder Inc., softly asked: "Do you remember? Hess tried to brush his hand against his eyes, but the handcuffs stopped him. Said he: "I must have been there ... I don't remember...
...York's mayoralty campaign was over before the election. The sure winner in the battle of personalities (rather than of municipal issues): 55-year-old, Erin-born Democratic and American Labor Party Candidate William O'Dwyer, onetime New York City cop, onetime Brigadier General in the U.S. Army who, like Tom Dewey, gained fame as a gang-busting district attorney...
...rear end-they call it the rudder here-is cut off about one inch." Later, he confided to a gathering at a Brooklyn clinic that he dislikes horse doctors because "a horse doctor pulled my first baby tooth." Wednesday he fired a few practice shots at Candidate O'Dwyer to sharpen his eye for his shooting bee with Governor Dewey on Manhattan's station...
Next day, in his office, the Mayor presented scholarships and instruments to 29 musical children, warned their parents: "Don't make them play pieces for company before they are ready." Saturday, after a final boot at Tammany and its candidate, O'Dwyer, he called it a week...
...morning. Democrat bigwigs had to hustle to meet him for an 8 o'clock breakfast on the train. The breakfast was good: orange juice and Persian melon, eggs & bacon, toast and coffee. The talk was good: Harry Truman was assured by the politicians that Democrat Bill O'Dwyer would win the New York mayoralty in a landslide...