William O ' Dwyer ( July 11, 1890November 24, 1964 ) was the 100th Mayor of New York City, holding that office from 1946 to 1950.

O ' Dwyer was born in County Mayo, Ireland and studied in St. Nathys College, Ballaghaderren.

After losing the mayoral election to Fiorello La Guardia in 1941, O ' Dwyer enlisted in the US Army, achieving the rank of brigadier general.

In 1945, O ' Dwyer received the nomination of the Tammany Hall Democrats and easily won the mayoral election.

At his inauguration, O ' Dwyer celebrated to the song, " It's a Great Day for the Irish ," and addressed the 700 people gathered in Council Chambers at City Hall: " It is our high purpose to devote our whole time, our whole energy to do good work ..." He established the Office of City Construction Coordinator, appointing Robert Moses to the post, worked to have the permanent home of the United Nations located in Manhattan, presided over the first billion-dollar New York City budget, created a traffic department and raised the subway fare from five cents to ten cents.

In 1948, O ' Dwyer received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award " in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York.

Shortly after his re-election to the mayoralty in 1949, O ' Dwyer was confronted with a police corruption scandal uncovered by the Kings County District Attorney, Miles McDonald.

O ' Dwyer resigned from office on August 31, 1950.

O ' Dwyer's brother Paul O ' Dwyer was also a New York City politician, and served as the then-city-wide elected position of City Council President from 1974 through 1977.

William O ' Dwyer died in New York City on November 24, 1964, in Beth Israel Hospital, at the age of 74 of heart failure.

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In 1945, Mayor William O ' Dwyer picked Impellitteri to run for President of the City Council on the Tammany Hall slate.

On August 31, 1950, O ' Dwyer, pursued by both federal and state investigators, was suddenly appointed by President Harry S. Truman as ambassador to Mexico, where he would be beyond the reach of officials who wanted his public testimony in several matters on which he preferred not to speak.

Under the City Charter of the day, when O ' Dwyer resigned, City Council President Impellitteri became acting mayor.

This famous scandal caused Impellitteri to vigorously support the Brooklyn District Attorney, Miles McDonald, and fire everyone who had been associated with former Mayor William O ' Dwyer.

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, Teterboro's Borough Council consists of Mayor John P. Watt, James O ' Dwyer, Juan Ramirez, Gregory Stein and John B. Watt.

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Historian and journalist T. Ryle Dwyer has called him " the most popular Irish politician since Daniel O ' Connell.

“ A series of online professional development courses that focus on specific content and target student learning needs can have positive effects on teacher knowledge and instructional practices ,” said Boston College Associate Professor of Education Laura O ’ Dwyer.

While in custody, Rudolph talked with Brooklyn District Attorney William O ' Dwyer.

With Rudolph's testimony, O ' Dwyer secured first-degree murder indictments against Abe Reles, Martin Goldstein and Anthony Maffetore.

" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".

* The single verse, 2 Samuel 18: 33, regarding David's grief at the loss of his son (" And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom!

Addressing an idol, Abu Bakr said " O my God, I am in need of beautiful clothes ; bestow them on me ".

For instance, binary search is said to run in a number of steps proportional to the logarithm of the length of the list being searched, or in O ( log ( n )), colloquially " in logarithmic time ".

Its first editor, William O. Eaton, just 22 years old, said " The Herald will be independent in politics and religion ; liberal, industrious, enterprising, critically concerned with literacy and dramatic matters, and diligent in its mission to report and analyze the news, local and global.

I'm sure you'd be the first to attest, Conan, that when it comes to the tough calls, NBC usually gets ' em right ," Costas said, alluding at the end to O ' Brien's involvement in the 2010 Tonight Show conflict.

A group is said to be of component type if for some centralizer C of an involution, C / O ( C ) has a component ( where O ( C ) is the core of C, the maximal normal subgroup of odd order ).

If a diatomic molecule consists of two atoms of the same element, such as H < sub > 2 </ sub > and O < sub > 2 </ sub >, then it is said to be homonuclear, but otherwise it is heteronuclear.

In speaking to the Assembly about the young boy named Bara, another martyr of the revolution, David said, " O Bara!

( Remember ) when the angels said: " O Maryam ( Mary )!

On 22 March, Rory O ' Connor held what was to become an infamous press conference and declared that the IRA would no longer obey the Dáil as ( he said ) it had violated its Oath to uphold the Irish Republic.

" In reply to the question on whether this meant they intended to create a military dictatorship, O ’ Connor said: " You can take it that way if you like.

As he reported to John Taylor two weeks afterwards, " Each day he would look up in the doctors face to discover how long he should live -- he would say -- " how long will this posthumous life of mine last " -- that look was more than we could ever bear — the extreme brightness of his eyes — with his poor pallid face — were not earthly --" Severn's ordeal was recognized by Keats himself, who, a month before his death, said, " Severn I can see under your quiet look -- immense twisting and contending -- you dont know what you are reading -- you are induring for me more than I'd have you -- O!

He said, " O John, your life was filled with sorrow, but your death was glorious.

After Aaron had received golden earrings from the people, he made a golden calf and said, " These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.

* He said to them ..." Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

She is said to have been the daughter of a Welsh steel worker of Irish descent, William O ' Callaghan, who had been superintendent on the Indian State railways.

He had said that he had composed it, and especially the new section " O salutaris ", just having her voice in mind.

O ' Brien later said that he was " awfully nervous " and hesitated a second too long before kicking it.

O ' Rourke said later that Kenney brought comedy to the piece and he brought the organization.

In her early novel Dawn O ' Hara, the title character's aunt is said to have remarked, " Being an old maid was a great deal like death by drowning-a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.

On December 3, 2007, shortly after Patrick received the last of those payments, Mayor Daley's City Hall press secretary, Jacquelyn Heard said Patrick Daley “ has no financial interest with the Wi-Fi contract at O ’ Hare .” "... he conflict of interest was blatant ," the Chicago Sun-Times editorialized.

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