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When he is in a good mood, New York's Mayor Bill O'Dwyer is the kind of Irishman who can charm a bird down out of a tree. But when the spirit moves him, he can be so bullheaded, blunt-tongued, and bent on the grand, illogical and impolitic gesture, that neither charm, hard work, nor all the other virtues, could be expected to rescue him from the consequences. Irish-born Bill O'Dwyer, who was a bartender, a cop, a district attorney and a brigadier general before becoming mayor, has one great attribute, however-fortune...
...years as mayor, O'Dwyer has seemed both fascinated and repelled by New York politics and his trying job. He has suffered from nervous exhaustion and heart trouble, has often yearned to pursue his particular hobby-following the trail of the old Spanish conquistadors in Central and South America.* He has also alienated backers and constituents. He opposed doubling the subway fare to 10?, before the election, and afterwards, came out for it. He announced that he would not think of running for a second term, and changed his mind at the last minute...
...also made Harry Truman as sore as a hoptoad in a thumbtack factory by suggesting in 1948 that the Democrats ought to get a better presidential candidate. After Truman was nominated, O'Dwyer gave him the biggest motorcycle escort ever assembled in New York, but the President, though virtually deafened by sirens, did not forgive...
Bill O'Dwyer was forever denouncing Tammany Hall, which the late Fiorello La Guardia had all but smashed, but when election time came around, he would be found, cozy in the corner of the Tammany tiger. Recently, ex-Cop O'Dwyer disturbed many a New Yorker by denouncing a prosecutor who was investigating crookedness on the police force (TIME, July...
...rainstorm would drown them all, suggested three old beer storage caves instead. Boston got RFC backing for its old plan to build a garage beneath the Boston Common, on the grounds that if would be a wonderful air raid shelter too. And New York's Mayor O'Dwyer wanted to spend $450 million for civilian shelters...