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Voters in New York City will parade to the polls today in the climax of what has been the most sizzling mayoralty campaign in recent years. Entertained by the antics of this country's liveliest one-man gang, Fiorella LaGuardia, and beset by the fury of Tammany's revivified tiger...
The Democrats had little or no platform for the mayoralty campaign, but they did have a shapely candidate, in spite of the fact that he looked like Tammany: 51-year-old, stocky William O'Dwyer, native of Ireland (County Mayo).
O'Dwyer, personally no Tammanyite, opened his campaign, like a devout boxer who crosses himself before the bell rings, by formally disowning Tammany (see col. j). Unfortunately all his powerful friends looked like Tammany to many a New York City voter: Alfred E. Smith, Bosses Ed Flynn and Frank...
Against these achievements are the undoubted facts that the Mayor is spending no less money than his Tammany predecessors, that he is head of the Mayors' lobby which is expert in raiding the Federal Treasury, that he is a fat little bumptious character, clowning and screaming dictatorially, posing for...
Reported the august (and sometimes deadpan) New York Times: "Speaking in Tammany Hall to an audience composed almost entirely of precinct workers in the Tammany organization, District Attorney William O'Dwyer [Tammany candidate for Mayor of New York] declared last night his complete independence of political machines and political...