Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mayor of New York he is almost the antithesis of the man he succeeded. La Guardia, the imaginative, tireless, dictatorial little crusader, was also a spiteful petulant exhibitionist with a passion for speeding through the city in police cars and making faces at cameramen. At 57, Bill O'Dwyer is a calm, controlled and sentimental man; when his temper rises he talks bluntly and profanely, but softly and with a cop's cold and quiet...
When La Guardia decided to retire after the war there was only one real candidate for mayor: General Bill O'Dwyer. But he refused to run except on his own terms. When Tammany and the borough bosses pressed him for promises of patronage, he went stubbornly off to California. He stayed there until they capitulated. He was elected by a landslide plurality of 685,000 votes...
Incubator Baby. As mayor, Bill O'Dwyer governs more people than live in many a sovereign nation. New York is still a melting pot. It has more Irish (500,000) than Dublin, more Jews (2,000,000) than Palestine, almost as many Italians (1,095,000) as Rome. It has 412,000 Poles, 57,000 Czechs, 54,000 Norwegians, 53,000 Greeks. Half a million Negroes are jammed into New York, alongside almost a quarter-million Puerto Ricans. Mayor O'Dwyer can never be free of the fear of a bloody riot in Harlem. He has other enormous...
Earl had some campaign promises to keep-$60 million in veterans' bonuses, $50-a-month pensions for the old folks. He also had some old scores to settle, principally with New Orleans' reform Mayor deLesseps ("Chep") Morrison, a longtime Long...
...annual reduction of $4,500,000) thereby crippling all city services from garbage collection to law enforcement. Just to make sure of his grip on New Orleans' police and fire departments, Earl planned to dominate them through an eleven-man board consisting of the mayor, his commissioner of public safety and nine Long henchmen...