Word: marcantonia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credit for effectively silencing McCarthy, and yet Nixon's first campaign was a miniature of McCarthy's tactics. And in 1950, in his successful race for the Senate against Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon hid his own record by showing that his opponent had voted 353 times with Representative Vito Marcantonia, and was therefore "soft on Communism." Nixon failed to point out that on most of these votes Marcantonia was merely going along with the Democratic majority, and that on a key issue like Nixon's vote against economic aid to Korea five months before the attack, he had himself joined...
Well, what would you expect from a Socialist University Organ? To bad Victor Marcantonia did not quit N.Y. and move to Cambridge! Well, there is Earl Browder for the editorial staff . . . Janie...
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