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...Connell delivered. To the astonishment of his fellow Democrats, Peter J. Dalessandro of Albany County, 28, the youngest man in the senate, abruptly announced that he was going to vote for Dewey's bill after all. The state needed rent control, and the G.O.P. bill was the only one with a chance of passage, he explained. Ex-Sergeant Dalessandro had won the Congressional Medal of Honor when, his outpost surrounded by Germans, he ordered his company's mortar battery: "O.K., let me have it-right on this position." Last week he was getting it again from outraged Democrats...
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