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...Washington the President announced, defiantly, that he would not fire O'Dwyer and did not expect him to resign. The Ambassador, he explained, is a fighter, just like...
...turned out 35 full pages of indignant prose on Gotham and, in its criticism of U.S. officials, reserved its bitterest and most lengthy blasts for New York's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer, now U.S. Ambassador to Mexico...
...Dwyer, the committee charged, had contributed directly and indirectly "to the growth of organized crime, racketeering and gangsterism in New York City." It accused him of playing footie with Underworld Big Shot Frank Costello (who also came in for a sharp dressing down) and with failing to do his full duty as Brooklyn's district attorney before becoming mayor...
...weekly press conference next day, newsmen were hipped on somewhat the same subject. The President's grin vanished with the first searing question. "I wonder," said a reporter, "whether you'd care to comment on the testimony by former Mayor O'Dwyer that he appointed to office friends and relatives of gangsters?" The President said coldly that he had no comment. "Is any change contemplated in his status as ambassador?" Harry Truman shot back a crackling...
...year-old case of Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles; there was even talk of exhuming Reles' corpse. His mysterious plunge from a hotel window one day in 1941, while under police guard, blew up a perfect rap against Murder Inc.'s Executioner Albert Anastasia. William O'Dwyer was Brooklyn district attorney at the time. Anastasia went free, and still is. Last week immigration authorities arrested one of Albert's five brothers (they all jumped ship to enter the U.S.) on illegal entry charges...