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9 unusual facts about William O'Dwyer


1947 New York City smallpox outbreak

On April 4, 1947, New York City Mayor, William O'Dwyer announced plans to vaccinate everybody in the city.

A Flag is Born

The sponsoring committee included many prominent people, including composer Leonard Bernstein, novelist Lion Feuchtwanger, New York City Mayor William O'Dwyer, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Alex Bail

The committee pressured Mayor William O'Dwyer into naming a fact finding commission to see if this financially tenable.

Arnold Raum

As Tax Court judge, Raum presided over the 1957 trial of former New York City mayor William O'Dwyer.

Billy O'Dwyer

For the Mayor of New York City from 1946-1950, see William O'Dwyer

Bohola

Former New York City Mayor and US Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer and his brother, the noted New York City humanitarian, lawyer, and politician Paul O'Dwyer are also natives of the village, as is prominent civil rights attorney Frank Durkan, also of New York, who was a nephew of the O'Dwyers.

Frank Filchock

It later developed New York City mayor Bill O'Dwyer, NFL commissioner Bert Bell, police commissioner Arthur Wallander and Giants' owner Tim Mara had met in the mayor's office to assess the situation on the day before the game.

Judge O'Dwyer

William O'Dwyer (1890–1964), Kings County (Brooklyn) Court, New York judge before becoming Mayor of New York City

William O'Dwyer

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.


Brian O'Dwyer

He attended the High School of Music and Art.

Bridget Dwyer

Dwyer was also featured on The Big Break VI: Trump National, the sixth series of the Golf Channel's reality show.

Bulldog Edition

Newspaper Editors Ken Dwyer (Ray Walker) and Evans (Robert Warwick) compete for circulation, and the heart of star reporter / cartoonist Randy Burns (Evalyn Knapp).

Cambridge Footlights Revue

It was written by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie with Penny Dwyer, Kim Harris, Katie Kelly, Jan Ravens, Paul Shearer, Tony Slattery, and Emma Thompson and performed by Fry, Laurie, Dwyer, Shearer, Slattery, and Thompson.

Chappie Dwyer

NSW then quickly dismissed Tasmania for 158, with four wickets each for Ronald Eaton and Frank Jordan, who took a further two and four wickets respectively as Tasmania were dismissed for 102 in the follow-on to hand NSW victory by an innings and 182 runs, the only victory Dwyer was to partake in.

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Association

In 1954, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas and a group of conservation-minded fellow hikers walked the C&O Canal from Cumberland, Md.

Colman O'Shaughnessy

When his uncle, William O'Shaughnessy, died in 1744, he became the Chief of the Name and commenced a lawsuit in the Court of Common Pleas to recover the ancient O'Shaughnessy estates at Gort in County Galway, Ireland.

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

2000: Comic book artist Kieron Dwyer was sued by Starbucks Coffee for parodying their famous mermaid logo within his comic book Lowest Common Denominator. Although the judge ruled that Starbucks could not sue a parody and the case settled out of court, Dwyer was forced to comply with the ruling that he could no longer use his logo for its confusing similarity to that of Starbucks.

Dan Zanger

He attended a seminar led by William O'Neil and this was a major turning point in his ability to select winning stocks.

Democratic vice presidential nomination of 1944

Among the possible candidates were James F. Byrnes, Roosevelt's "assisting president," who initially was the prominent alternative, Associate Justice William O. Douglas, U.S. Senators Alben W. Barkley and Harry S. Truman as well as the Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn.

Division 4

Kevin Dwyer (Ted Hamilton), an ambitious and dedicated cop who is always eager to work with the CIB.

Don McNeill's Breakfast Club

It remained a fixture on the ABC radio network (formerly the NBC Blue Network; it became known as ABC in 1945), maintaining its popularity for years and counting among its fans Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas.

Erik Paulson

Erik is the coauthor of a book along with American Combat Association president Matthew Granahan and JD Dwyer on the History of American Submission Wrestling.

Jeffrey Rosenberg

Rosenberg and Dwyer were both original members of and contributors to the Fort Thunder art and music scene in Providence in the late 1990s.

John Dwyer Technology Academy

The Elizabeth Public Schools is partnering with The National Academy Foundation and is currently engaged in a Year of Planning - Academy Development Process to establish the Academy of Information Technology as a career academy at the John E. Dwyer Technology Academy in September 2010.

John F. Kennedy Supreme Court candidates

Robert F. Kennedy said "it would mean so much overseas that we had a Negro on the Supreme Court." However, Hastie was opposed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, who balked because "he's not a liberal and he'll be opposed to all measures we are interested in, and he would be completely unsatisfactory." Associate Justice William O. Douglas also objected to Hastie as the nominee.

John P. Reese

His first book, The Market Gurus: Stock Investing Strategies You Can Use From Wall Street's Best (Dearborn, 2002. ISBN 978-0976510109), was co-authored with Todd O. Glassman and examined the strategies of eight different stock market investors—Peter Lynch, Benjamin Graham, William O'Neil, Warren Buffett, David Dreman, Martin Zweig, Kenneth Fisher, and James O'Shaughnessy.

John Stephen Dwyer

He was son of John Dwyer, esq., famous as Lord Chancellor Clare's Secretary.

Keadeen

Dwyer McAllister's cottage is at the northern base of Keadeen at Derrynamuck, where Michael Dwyer, the 1798 rebellion United Irishmen leader, escaped from the British soldier's siege on Sam McAllister cottage in December 1799 up the slopes of the mountain.

Liberty

In the United States Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut, Justice William O. Douglas argued that liberties relating to personal relationships, such as marriage, have a unique primacy of place in the hierarchy of freedoms.

MANual Enterprises v. Day

Justice William Brennan, joined by Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice William O. Douglas, concurred but would have decided the case on much narrower technical rather than First Amendment grounds.

Mark J. Marcus

He was Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families in the 1970s and 1980s, serving in the administrations of Governor's Ella T. Grasso and William O'Neill.

Michael Dwyer

One of Michael Dwyer's sons was the owner of The Harp Hotel in Bungendore, New South Wales in circa 1838.

Michael O'Dwyer

He distinguished himself in land revenue settlement work, and was made director of land records and agriculture in Punjab (1896); next year he was placed in charge of settlements of Alwar and Bharatpur states.

New Haven Nighthawks

Notable players for the Nighthawks include former New York Islanders great Bobby Nystrom; Willie O'Ree; Tom Colley, the franchise's career leader in games (534), goals (204), assists (281) and points (485); ex-Boston Bruin Billy O'Dwyer; career penalty minute leader (688) Al Tuer; ex-WHA star Bobby Sheehan, Bernie Nicholls, Blaine Stoughton and Mike Rogers.

O'Dwyer

J. R. O'Dwyer Company, magazine publisher for the United States public relations industry

Pennsylvania v. Nelson

The Case was argued in front of the Warren Court whose members were: Earl Warren; Hugo Black; Stanley Reed; Felix Frankfurter; William O. Douglas; Harold Burton; Tom C. Clark; Sherman Minton; and John Marshall Harlan II.

Penrose Methodist Chapel

The Methodist societies established by William O’Bryan (1778-1868) became known as the Bible Christians, and the first formed at Launcells and Shebbear along the Devon and Cornwall border largely on agricultural land.

Phil Dwyer

After retiring from football, in 1985 Dwyer joined the South Wales Police force, despite being a year older than the force's recruitment age limit, in the town of Wenvoe, where he has lived with his wife Ann for twenty years.

Pizza Brain

In May 2010, Kensington-based artist Brian Dwyer, along with Christopher Powell, organized "Give Pizza Chance"—Philadelphia's first pizza-based art show—in which pizza served as muse for more than 25 artists who displayed their work at a local gallery.

Racine Art Museum

The collection includes artists Robert Ebendorf, Arline Fisch, Eleanor Moty, Earl Pardon, Susan Kingsley, Ken Loeber, Albert Paley, Kevin O'Dwyer, Fred Fenster and Chunghi Choo.

Radio Éireann Players

The founding actors (plus three who joined the following year) were: Tom Studley, George Greene, Éamonn Kelly, Joe Lynch, Arthur O'Sullivan, Laurence O'Dea, Frank O'Dwyer, Christine Spencer, Ginette Waddell, Marie Mulvey, Gerard Healey, Leo Leyden, Charles McCarthy, Deirdre O'Meara, Una Collins, Seamus Forde, Charles Davis, Ronald Ibbs, Florence Lynch, Mairín Ní Shuilleabháin, Joseph O'Dea, Christopher Casson, John Stephenson and Aidan Grennell.

Ralph Paine, Jr.

Paine lamented "I'm about to be fired unless I can find someone who can satisfy Times advertisers without catering to them." Through Yale law professor William O. Douglas, he found that replacement, Eliot Janeway.

Trevor Dwyer-Lynch

Born and raised in Moss Side and Salford, trained in Drama and Performing Arts at City College Manchester in 1990, Dwyer-Lynch has appeared in numerous television and theatre productions, merging both serious roles—such as "Gloucester" in Shakespeare's King Lear—to his best known comedic nice guy role in Coronation Street as Patrick Tussell the taxi-driver working for Steve McDonald (2002–2005).

Twilight: The Graphic Novel

The plot describes Bella Swan's move from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie, while her mother, Renée, travels with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, a minor league baseball player.

We Were There

The books were written by a number of different authors, each writing from one to seven of the books; the authors included Benjamin Appel, Jim Kjelgaard, Earl Schenck Miers, William O. Steele, and others.

West Cork by-election, 1916

2Healy was imprisoned in Frongoch internment camp for supposedly being associated with Sinn Féin, but Sinn Féin repudiated his candidacy for not revoking to take his seat at Westminster, instead had been supported by William O'Brien, who was leader of the All-for-Ireland League.

Wild River State Park

The park is managed to provide quieter, more nature-oriented recreation as a counterpoint to the busier William O'Brien and Interstate State Parks downstream.

William Burgin

William O. Burgin (1877–1946), U.S. Representative from North Carolina

William Dwyer

Ubi Dwyer, Bill 'Ubi' Dwyer (1933-2001), Windsor Free Festival organiser

William Lee Dwyer

On July 28, 1987, Dwyer was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington vacated by Donald S. Voorhees.

William O. Barnard

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixty-second Congress in 1910.

William O. Brice

He also headed Marine Aircraft Group 14 during its support of the New Georgia and Bougainville invasions and directed all Solomons-based Army, Navy, Marine and New Zealand fighter operations against Rabaul, Japan's biggest base in the Southwest Pacific.

William O. Farber

Protégés including Tom Brokaw, Al Neuharth, Dennis Daugaard, and Pat O'Brien all credit much of their success upon the teachings of "Doc" Farber.

William O. Munsell House

Situated on the western edge of a proposed Buckman Historic District, the Munsell House features large pedimented gable dormers facing the cardinal points.

William O. Wallace

He was Oscar-nominated in 1948 for Jean Negulesco’s Johnny Belinda, and also worked on Young Man with a Horn (1950), Battle Cry (1955) and Nicholas Ray’s seminal Rebel Without a Cause in 1956.

William O'Neill, 1st Baron O'Neill

He was the great-great-great-grandson of John Chichester, grandson of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester, and younger brother of Arthur Chichester, 2nd Earl of Donegall.


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Jacob Joseph

The dedication ceremony was attended by Mayor William O’Dwyer, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, Councilman Stanley Isaacs, and Captain Joseph’s father Lazarus Joseph – a Democratic Party leader who was a six time State Senator and New York City's Comptroller at the time.