Word: marcantonio
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Janissaries of Sultan Selim II wrested control of the island from Venetian merchant princes in 1571, and quickly demonstrated to the Cypriots the basic style of Ottoman administration. The defender of the Cypriot city of Famagusta, one Marcantonio Bragadino, had held off the Turkish troops for nearly a year, and when Famagusta finally fell, the Turks slowly and publicly flayed him alive. Bragadino's straw-stuffed skin was paraded through the city, and the lesson was not lost on the Cypriots...
Soon afterwards, upon the invitation of Vito Marcantonio, Dr. DuBois ran in New York for a seat in the U.S. Senate on the Progressive Party Ticket. He obtained only 270,000 of the 3,000,000 votes and soon after this defeat was asked by the Department of Justice to register as an agent of a foreign government. Marcantonio defended DuBois and he was finally acquitted, but he wrote, "the growl of a mob, the personal threat of murder ... nothing has cowed me as that day when I took my seat in a Washington courtroom as an indicted criminal." Shortly...
...Senate in 1950 against liberal-wing Democratic Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas (wife of Cinemactor Melvyn Douglas), defeated her in what he called a "rocking, socking campaign." It featured Nixon's documented allegation that her voting record resembled that of New York's Commu nist-lining Congressman Vito Marcantonio-a charge originally hurled at Candidate Douglas not by Nixon but by an opponent in the Democratic primary...
...patient prayers of the hardworking faithful, the clink of pennies in a revivalist's plate. Harlem has mothered a strange and varied brood: Bojangles Robinson, tap-dancing down Broadway; Sugar Ray Robinson in a fuchsia Cadillac; Josephine Baker in a banana-laden G-string; pro-Communist Vito Marcantonio, haranguing a street-corner crowd; Father Divine in his special heavens, and-most recently-Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church...