Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good enough for Marx and Lenin, it's good enough for Brooklyn's Communist Councilman Peter V. Cacchione. Wrote Comrade Cacchione in the New York Worker: "It is certainly urgent to build up from childhood the ideological defenses to the penetration of fascist or neo-fascist divisive cannibal racist ideas...
...born in Naples and brought up in Brooklyn. He was hot-tempered, dramatic, sentimental and tough; a hairy, meaty youth with cold eyes and a brawler's arms. An ugly scar disfigured his left cheek-the mark of a fiery little Sicilian who was the first and last man ever to cut him with a knife. He fought with either his fists or a pistol. By the time he was 19, he was skilled in robbery, and was suspected of two murders...
Then he moved to Chicago. In Prohibition days, Chicago was easy pickings for a smart kid from Brooklyn...
...Brooklyn's 1,000-watt, daytime station WLIB, which she had picked up "to supplement the Post," and had ignored until last year, when the station lost over $100,000. Last week she dropped everything and rushed to her baby's side; until WLIB was showing a profit, she would be general manager, full time...
...given her a running start. In recent weeks she had: 1) applied for 10,000 watts and a 24-hour broadcast day; 2) bought an empty church in downtown Manhattan to give WLIB much-needed Manhattan office and studio space ("You can't get people to go to Brooklyn just for a broadcast"). Program deals already on the fire...