NEW YORK: To the Lions?

Maybe Democratic Boss Ed Flynn (who comes from The Bronx, got to be Franklin Roosevelt's right-hand man) was throwing a Brooklyn boy to the lions.

Maybe, instead, he was trying to put a knife in Franklin Roosevelt's frantic little friend Fiorello LaGuardia. It all depended on how you looked at it, when Boss Flynn handed Brooklyn's blue-eyed, stocky District Attorney William O'Dwyer the job of running against LaGuardia for mayor of New York City.

The Little Flower took to the air this week, said he will be a third-term candidate for mayor, come what may, keep his Washington post as Civilian...

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