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Boomed James Aloysius Farley, another O'Dwyer backer: "Never have we been so degraded. ... A man . . . last night showed himself in his true colors...
...little rump-sprung Mayor, who has been campaigning New York City for 24 years, had a far shrewder appreciation than his opponents of the delicate art of abuse. He started the ball rolling by putting the name of Governor Herbert Lehman (backer of his opponent, William O'Dwyer) into the same paragraph with the words "goniff" (Yiddish for thief) and "double-crosser...
...strongest bid for regaining power since the "Little Flower" first became mayor, Tammany has put up as his opponent Brooklyn's District Attorney, William O'Dwyer. Though he has denied official tutelage by the redoubtable Tiger, there can be no doubt that Tammany looks upon him as its candidate. All the ward-heeling machinery which has been growing rusty since La Guardia made up his mind to do away with that kind of a machine age has sprung once more into action. Every Bronz big-shot and Brooklyn saloon keeper who has a finger in the Tammany pie is licking...
...other factors are aiding O'Dwyer's cause. The first, active support by America-Firsters, Bundists, anti-Semites, and the like, is apt to prove a negligible influence in determining the ultimate outcome, and O'Dwyer has consistently repudiated such support. The second factor working in his favor is the alarming apathy on the part of New York's voters, many of whom have come to take LaGuardia so much for granted that they don't bother to vote for him. This year's low registration figures are ample testimony to this...
...doing so, Franklin Roosevelt undercut one of his most loyal friends and party advisers: Boss Edward J. Flynn, Jim Farley's successor as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. It was Boss Flynn who helped pick Brooklyn's District Attorney William O'Dwyer as a likely candidate to run against Mayor LaGuardia (TIME, July 28). Said a White House correspondent: "Mr. President, there have been reports . . . that Mr. Flynn would resign if you supported Mayor LaGuardia." The President's smile vanished. He looked hard at the reporter. Then he answered curtly that he did not think...