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...Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer is probably the only well-known diplomat in the world who regularly finds it necessary to insist that he is 1) a poor and 2) an honest man. So many firemen, cops, politicos and Old Pals dealt in skulduggery during his years as mayor of New York that O'Dwyer is continually being asked embarrassing questions about his relations with them. Last week the Kefauver committee reversed the process, called in Old Pal Irving Sherman and asked him why he had been so chummy with the mayor...
...National University of Mexico's summer session enrolled two 10 o'clock scholars: U.S. Ambassador William O'Dwyer & wife, he to take Spanish lessons, she to brush up on native culture...
...Ambassador O'Dwyer...
...York's good old days, all the wise birds knew that big, granite-jawed Jim Moran was more than just Mayor William O'Dwyer's deputy fire commissioner. When he listened, politicians understood that O'Dwyer would hear, and when he spoke, they understood that O'Dwyer was speaking. Moran had grown up in one of Brooklyn's toughest districts; the oldest boy in a family of 14 kids, he had worked since he was eleven. Jim Moran had followed O'Dwyer up to the big time: they got together when...
Then the Kefauver committee held its hearing in New York. Water Commissioner Moran stirred their curiosity. A firemen's-union official swore he had given Moran $55,000 in anticipation of favors during O'Dwyer's regime; Moran was asked to quit his lifetime job, and did. But that wasn't all. The Kefauver committee asked Jim Moran how often one Louis Weber, a Brooklyn policy king, had visited Moran's headquarters. His answer: no more than once or twice a year during his five years in office...