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Maybe, instead, he was trying to put a knife in Franklin Roosevelt's frantic little friend Fiorello LaGuardia. It all depended on how you looked at it, when Boss Flynn handed Brooklyn's blue-eyed, stocky District Attorney William O'Dwyer the job of running against LaGuardia for mayor of New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: To the Lions? | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...sure of winning, he will need lots of Republican votes, for Irish-born (in County Mayo), 51 -year-old Judge O'Dwyer is not exactly a pushover. A onetime longshoreman, plasterer's helper, he started pounding New York City's pavements as a rookie cop just 24 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: To the Lions? | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...Dwyer over Kemble, decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLOVE FINALS ARE TONIGHT | 3/14/1941 | See Source »

...train was pulled out, the two rescuers heaved their charge, unconscious but barely scratched, to the platform, then they tried to sneak off into the crowd, found they had to leave their names with the police. One was Frank Serrano, a short, husky longshoreman. The other: William O'Dwyer, 33, unemployed. They had never seen each other before. Both got sore, and at first refused to give their names; for a time it looked as if the rescue would end in an arrest. To reporters, clamoring for a "statement," neither had anything to say. "Hero?" said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Rescue | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...honored for their scholastic achievement in the professional school were: Carl J. Antonellis '37 of Medford; George A. Dodge, II '37, Brookline; Clement S. Dwyer '37, Boston and Raymond Yesner '35, Boston. All are candidates for a medical degree in June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEDICAL STUDENTS HONORED | 12/6/1940 | See Source »

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