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Halley: "Was he also a frequent visi tor at your office when you were deputy fire commissioner?" Moran: "It is possible that Weber came in my office three times during that period."
Halley: "Is it possible he came much more often?"
Moran: "No, sir, it is not—He came in around Eastertime with a little bottle of perfume that he gave me, that I thought was, well, a damn nice thing for anybody to do."
There was a stir and a squat, sullen-looking Puerto Rican was brought in. He was Louis Weber. Then a husky fireman came in and sat down beside Moran. He had been assigned as receptionist outside Moran's office. He identified Weber and declared nervously but positively that Weber had visited Moran "about 50 times." ,
Moran swung around and glared i fireman for a long moment of silence. "Ridiculous!" he snapped. Pushing at the crowd around him, he demanded: Can I get the hell out of here?" He could, with a possible charge of perjury hovering over his head.
This week Ambassador Bill O'Dwyer faced the Senators. Extra chairs had been dragged in, standees crowded around the witness table. "I need those mikes—to talk to the people," said O'Dwyer. Twiddling a paper clip, he rambled over an account of his whole career ("I took 190,000 people out of the slums"), soliloquized at length that crime was bred by Prohibition mint machines, and "tattered nerves, wash-line disputes and arguments over children." ,
O'Dwyer admitted that he had visited Costello's apartment as an Army investigator, that he saw two Tammany leaders there. Senator Tobey, who had been heckling O'Dwyer off & on all day, broke in. Snapped Tobey: "It almost seems to me as though you should say 'unclean, unclean,' as the old Romans practiced it, and that you would leave him alone, as they do a leper."
O'Dwyer: "You have bookmaking all over the country, even in New Hampshire, $30 million a year."
Tobey: "We haven't a Costello in New Hampshire."
O'Dwyer: "Well, I wonder ... I wonder who the bookmakers in Bretton Woods support for public office."
Tobey: "Well, I will tell you one that they did not support, and he is talking to you now."
O'Dwyer: "And I can tell you that you don't know who supports you, because you sent here for money, to help you i your primaries and your election, and you got it and you don't know where it came from."
Tobey: "I didn't send to New York—"O'Dwyer: "You called up."
Tobey: "Well, I didn't get any—" O'Dwyer: "Well, would you like to go into that?" "
Tobey: "Yes, I would. I challenge you.
O'Dwyer: "All right. Is there a Mr. Rosenblatt in the room?"
There was a moment of breathless silence. There was no answer. But after that, Senator Tobey of New Hampshire was noticeably mumchance, and Ambassador O'Dwyer became noticeably self-possessed.