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...Jersey and. New York, Anastasia emerged as a star performer despite himself. The ghost of Peter Panto, an insurgent longshoreman whose body was found in a New Jersey lime pit eleven years ago, came to haunt him-and to haunt New York's ex-Mayor Bill O'Dwyer...
Those elected were: John W. Coolidge, Jr. of Cambridge and Matthews; John T. Dwyer of Hopkinton and Dudley; James M. Fitzgibbons of Duxbury and Massachusetts; Seymour Goldstaub of West New York, New Jersey and Weld; Peter S. Hearst of Palatine, III. and Massachusetts; Richard M. Oehmler of Pittsburgh and Hollis; J. Brock Stokes of Nashville, Tenn, and Hollis; and Irving K. Zola of Mattapan and Thayor...
...another concerning his administration. His closest political sidekick, James J. Moran, was found guilty of engineering a huge fire department shakedown of oil-burner dealers-a shakedown which netted millions. Convicted Brooklyn Bookie Harry Gross told of paying off whole platoons of New York cops during the O'Dwyer era, and charged that Moran had once called a pre-election meeting of O'Dwyer and the city's top bookies...
Like a Retired Houdini. For more than two years, O'Dwyer, popular as ever with the Mexicans, airily refused to pay any attention. Harry Truman as airily refused to fire him. But last week, with the Eisenhower Administration on its way in, Bill O'Dwyer gravely notified the President that having "done everything in my power to serve my country well" he was withdrawing from the diplomatic service. The President, in a letter of praise, "reluctantly" accepted his resignation...
This pious gravity was not echoed, however, in New York. "Come home, Bill," jeered the tabloid Daily News in a one-line editorial, "nothing is forgiven." City Council President Rudolph Halley said he hoped that O'Dwyer would either come back voluntarily or be brought back to testify on the city scandals. But this was mostly talk. If O'Dwyer chooses to stay in Mexico-as he has strongly indicated he will-he cannot be brought back unless 1) he is charged with a specific crime, and 2) his Mexican friends can be persuaded that it is legally...