Word: isacson
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...closing rush. Last week, with the bill on the floor at last, the House did its best to oblige. An ill-assorted alliance of the far left and far right leaped in with knives flourishing. New York's Communist-line Vito Marcantonio and left-wing Leo Isacson joined forces with Mississippi's ranting John E. Rankin and Michigan's Paul Shafer...
Representing the "Third" Party, Congressman Leo Isacson of New York denounced government policies, claiming "the people are not disloyal to the administration; the administration has betrayed the people...
...length by the editors in an article "What Now, What Next." Their discussion, however, adds little to Mr. Hersh's story, except for the dogma that the Wallace Third Party is the only "genuine alternative to war, depression, and fascism." Al Gold gives an interesting picture of the powerful Isacson campaign in "Victory in the Bronx," although his implication that, with "proper" organization, Wallace will sweep the nation in November seems unjustified on the grounds of the New York test alone...
Speaking for the Democrats will be Congressman Aime Forand of Rhode Island and Miss Catherine Falvey of the Democratic National Committee; for the Republicans, Senator Owen ("Hughes") Brewster of Maine and Senator James Kem of Missouri; and for the "Third Party," Congressman Leo Isacson (above) of New York...
...Isacson recently overthrew Boss Flynn's machine to win a special Congressional election in the Bronx...