Word: isacson
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...Sound Wagons Roll. But the Communist-dominated Wallace-A.L.P. forces behaved like hungry politicians. Their candidate was a young (37), good-looking and aggressive labor lawyer named Leo Isacson, who was born on Manhattan's lower East Side, served a term in the New York State Assembly, had never met Wallace until the campaign. The left-wingers sent their doorbell-ringers all over the district, harangued the voters in English, Yiddish and Spanish. Their literature snowed under the other parties' polite handbills. They hired more and louder sound trucks...
Over & over Isacson hammered home the contention that Harry Truman had ducked the Palestine issue; that his civil-rights stand was mostly talk. Isacson wanted price control resumed, rent control continued, the Taft-Hartley Act revoked and subway fares kept at a nickel. And, most pleasing to the Communists, he was dead set against the Marshall Plan...