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...risks and made enormous profits. He also kept himself so shadowy and unobtrusive a figure that when U.S. Attorney Emory Buckner made a desperate but unsuccessful effort to smash the liquor racket, Costello was erroneously charged with being an accomplice rather than a competitor of Rum King Big Bill Dwyer...
...plain fact was that big, bluff William O'Dwyer had been a pretty good mayor, all things considered. Last week in an election that brought out 93% of New York City's registered voters, he was sent back to the City Hall...
...soup and the baked seafood canape, White House Press Secretary Charlie Ross approached the dais with a sheaf of figures in hand. Harry Truman rose, grinning, and without waiting for the formality of an introduction, said into the mike: "I have some early election returns. Lehman and O'Dwyer seem to be winning. It looks pretty good." After the Boston ice cream pie had been cleared away, the President rose again to announce "the latest returns on the Lehman-Dulles fiasco - and it will be just that when Lehman gets through with him . . . We have a report that...
...wasn't even close. Despite the opposition of most of the city's newspapers and two rival candidates, O'Dwyer piled up 1,264,600 votes-308,000 more than his nearest opponent, Republican Reformer Newbold Morris. Only two Republicans were elected to city offices. Triumphant Irish-born Bill O'Dwyer had his own explanation: "It means that New York City is a New Deal and a Fair Deal town. It means that, while the people of this city are not organized, labor is organized, and the people have confidence in any one in whom organized...
...York City, Mayor William O'Dwyer was re-elected, with Newbold Morris, Republican-Liberal-Fusion candidate conceding the victory at 10:23 p.m. last night...