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...hearings were closed, and could only be followed by buttonholing the doctors at the operating-room door, the committee's interests were plain. It wanted to know all about 1) Underworld Kingpin Frank Costello, and 2) former Mayor and present U.S. Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer...
What Was Going On? The committee's references to the former mayor (who invited one of its investigators to take testimony from him in Mexico City last week) were also on a diplomatic and neutral plane. Beyond revealing O'Dwyer's statement that he had met Costello only once, and then in obedience to an order when he was a World War II officer investigating war frauds, the committee publicly made no attempt to link...
...list of subsequent witnesses made it obvious that the committee was going further in checking tie-ups between crime and politics; that it was well aware that officials of O'Dwyer's regime (some of whom were involved in recent fire-and police-department scandals) had demonstrated such an uncanny propensity for getting into hot water that millions of New Yorkers wondered just what was going on before he resigned...
...found himself commanding the services of a special unit known as the Major Disaster Squad. Though the squad was officially charged with anticipating and preventing major conflagrations, it actually served a vastly different function. Its 60 hand-picked members, luxuriating in the regime of Mayor William O'Dwyer, were all "real pushers," who could "put the arm on anybody"; they did nothing for months but sell tickets to the Firemen's Ball...
Last week The Miracle made headlines by offending Edward T. McCaffrey, $15,000-a-year license commissioner of New York City and onetime national commander of the Catholic War Veterans. McCaffrey, a holdover from the O'Dwyer administration, has power to grant, suspend and revoke the licenses of the city's movie theaters (as well as of legitimate theaters, laundries, bowling alleys, etc.). After Ways of Love had been running for more than a week, McCaffrey sent the Paris Theater an order to stop showing The Miracle or face suspension-and possibly revocation-of its license. The movie...