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...Freshman Smoker is scheduled for February 27, John T. Dwyer '56, recently elected publicity chairman of the Smoker Committee, announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Smoker Date Is Set for February 27 | 1/20/1953 | See Source »

...Dwyer, as publicity chairman, will handle all the information regarding the committee's plans for February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Smoker Date Is Set for February 27 | 1/20/1953 | See Source »

...Panto Died. It was O'Dwyer, as a politically ambitious prosecutor in Brooklyn, who publicly promised justice in the case of Panto. It was O'Dwyer who finally let Anastasia, the killer, go free for lack of evidence after Star Witness Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles "jumped or fell" from a Coney Island hotel room in which six New York cops stood guard. But last week the commission exhumed a report, buried by O'Dwyer, on the exact circumstances of Panto's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Nine Hundred & Forty Thieves | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...Panto was killed, and life for workmen in Brooklyn's six "Camarda locals" of the International Longshoremen's Association-so-called because of their ironhanded rule by a hoodlum named Emil Camarda-went on as usual. Anastasia was not even brought in by O'Dwyer for questioning. Rank & file members of the A.F.L. union, witnesses testified, had to pay their dues to gangsters who simply appropriated them. They were rarely allowed to hold meetings. They not only had to "kick back" up to 40% of their salaries for the privilege of getting work, but to contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Nine Hundred & Forty Thieves | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

What did ex-cop, ex-judge, ex-district attorney, ex-general, ex-mayor, now ex-Ambassador O'Dwyer have to say about this? Safely south of the border in Mexi co, last week, he cried: "If they're so goddam interested in Anastasia, then why the hell don't they prosecute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Nine Hundred & Forty Thieves | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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