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Understandable Man. The third major candidate was someone that any visitor could understand: a triple-dyed, up-from-the-ranks Democrat, and no question about it. He was stocky, scrappy William O'Dwyer, ex-Brooklyn District Attorney, ex-Brigadier General, who once studied for the priesthood, became a bartender, hod carrier, cop and magistrate...
...there were complications here too. Along came Commerce Secretary Henry Wallace, who votes in Iowa, to give unhesitating support to Bill O'Dwyer, a product of the Brooklyn machine. And wasn't Henry Wallace the man who was knocked out of the Vice Presidency by just such machines...
...French visitor might have found hard to understand was that these complexities of local politics were super imposed on what is fundamentally a two-party system. He would hear reports: Judge Goldstein had been put up to draw the Jewish vote away from the Democrats. . . . Bill O'Dwyer would lose Catholic votes because of his A.L.P. tie-up. . . . Actually the election was just a test of Tom Dewey's ability to get re-elected in 1946. . . . Or it was just a test of Harry Truman's strength in New York...
...lighted electric bulb. It also had a candidate for mayor: Yaleman Newbold Morris, Republican City Council President and protégé of Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who is retiring. (Morris' opponents : Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, Republican - Liberal -City Fusion candidate ; former Brooklyn District Attorney William O'Dwyer, choice of the Democrats and the American Labor Party.) The new party's name, thought up by LaGuardia, was intended to signify that no deals had been made with politicians...
Through all this, Mayor LaGuardia went smilingly about his business. He jeered at the three Irishmen (Boss Flynn of the Bronx, Boss Kelly of Brooklyn and O'Dwyer) who had patched together the Democratic ticket. Said The Hat: "It looks to me like a case of rape by acquiescence and consent, and a good time was enjoyed...