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...death was too much for Mayor William O'Dwyer, himself once a cop on a Brooklyn beat. As a result of a gambling-and-graft investigation by Brooklyn's District Attorney Miles McDonald, a lot of other policemen had been called before the grand jury. A lieutenant had been indicted for perjury about the source of $6,000 in his personal funds; a police inspector had had a mental collapse. As O'Dwyer saw it, Prosecutor McDonald, an ally of O'Dwyer's latest political enemy, Borough President John Cashmore, was carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Gesture of Defiance | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

...Present at the service in the Roman Catholic Church of the Ascension were the police glee club, which sang the Requiem Mass, the six Catholic, Jewish and Protestant police department chaplains, Police Commissioner William O'Brien and other top-ranking police officials, and, looking grim, Mayor O'Dwyer himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Gesture of Defiance | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAA Lists Spring Letter Winners | 6/20/1950 | See Source »

...Beset. There was some truth, but a lot of exaggeration in this alarming picture. Last week it was possible to get a clearer and cooler idea of the "Puerto Rican problem." Even Marcantonio's hold on the immigrants was not what it once was. Mayor William O'Dwyer's administration had done a lot to cut down Marcantonio's power, by installing Spanish-speaking teachers and relief workers in the neighborhood, thus convincing the new people that someone besides Vito Marcantonio took an interest in them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: World They Never Made | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...demonstration. To the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram & the Sun, the students were sowing the seeds of "chaos." Superintendent of Schools William Jansen said that the strikers could not be "condemned too severely." The New York Post claimed that the officials were taking it all too seriously. Mayor O'Dwyer was plainly exasperated. He threatened to cancel the $7,000,000 appropriation, demanded that the Board of Education start a complete investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Except Saturday | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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