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...that crucial, reader-pleasing evidence of Communism, New Dealism, Socialism, "Homosexualism," and the Mafia. They shift into overdrive when it is imposible to check them. One of the passages which will probably titillate historians in years to come is their version of what former New York Mayor William O'Dwyer was doing on Dec. 7, 1941. It seems O'Dwyer was just wrapping up a first degree murder indictment against his predecessor, La Guardia, and Sidney Hillman. The phone rang. It was President Roosevelt. Roosevelt told O'Dwyer that since the war had just broken out, O'Dwyer had better...
When his old pal, Mayor Bill O'Dwyer, made him New York's first deputy fire commissioner, Moran set out with a crusader's zeal to correct one of the city's perennial rackets: the shakedown of contractors seeking permits to install oil burners and tanks. Last week, as Moran was on trial in Manhattan, charged with 23 counts of extortion, even the most exacting connoisseur of corruption had to admit that he had done an amazing...
Tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Yaleman Morris was one of the eager young men of Fiorello La Guardia's Fusion administration in New York. He served as president of the city council under the Little Flower (1938-46), ran unsuccessfully for mayor against William O'Dwyer. Morris has a gift for the pompous phrase and the ill-turned paragraph; as a reporter once said to him: "You were born with a silver foot in your mouth...
...William O'Dwyer, 61, ex-mayor of New York City, privately deplored by the State Department when Truman abruptly appointed him Ambassador to Mexico in 1950. But gregarious Bill O'Dwyer has become the most popular ambassador the U.S. ever had in Mexico. Mexicans like him because he speaks Spanish and because his wife is pretty. The O'Dwyers are enormously popular, entertain widely, and get around. He has a nice instinct for handling prideful Mexicans and a politician's feel for public relations. During an inspection trip to the Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande...
...committee also touched on some broader aspects of crime in the U.S. It gave the back of its hand to Florida's Governor Fuller Warren (whose name "cropped up frequently in questionable connections"), and suggested-although in markedly milder terms than in earlier attacks-that William O'Dwyer had not always kept the best of company during his years as mayor of New York. The Senators urged a federal law legalizing wiretapping, and a privately financed national crime council for coordination of the fight against corruption and gangsterism on the local level...