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...bosses of all parties, sniffing the winds of power, put on brass-knuckle fights to pick their candidates. Democrats, with a handsome candidate handed them on a platter, roiled and boiled for weeks before they finally chose him: Brooklyn's District Attorney William O'Dwyer, onetime cop, hod carrier, onetime student for the priesthood, an ex-brigadier general, and the man who broke up Brooklyn's Murder...
...Twist. In Chicago, experimenting with some new jujitsu holds, Joseph Dwyer and Harry Stevens simultaneously broke each other's right...
...York, there was some ripe political speculation. Handsome, strapping Brigadier General William O'Dwyer, late of the Allied Control Commission in Italy, returned to his $20,000-a-year job as Brooklyn's District Attorney. Bill O'Dwyer promptly squelched a rumor that he had returned to civvies to run as Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York next fall against Fusionist "Butch" LaGuardia...
...Dwyer's emphatic denial brought forth hotter political dope: LaGuardia would run for a fourth term with Fusion, American Labor Party and Tammany backing. His re-election thus assured, he could stay at City Hall just long enough to run for U.S. Senator in 1946 with the same backing, and on a ticket with New Dealing Senator Jim Mead, as the candidate for Governor...
...North Africa, perhaps dreaming of marching into Rome at the head of U.S. columns. But a Congressional hubbub over "political generals" had stopped the appointment cold; Franklin Roosevelt sent to Italy two other New York Democrats, lameduck Charles Poletti, ex-lieutenant governor, and William O'Dwyer, Brooklyn's D.A.-on-leave...