Word: marcantonio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peace Information Center in New York City in 1949, an organization that the Attorney General listed as "subversive." He was indicted by a federal grand jury for "failure to register as a foreign agent," but was acquitted on the strength of the efforts of his defense attorney, Vito Marcantonio...
Unchallenged for re-election in 1948, Nixon raised his sights in 1950 and ran for the Senate against Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, a former actress. It would be, he said, a "rocking, socking campaign." That was putting it mildly. Nixon issued a "pink sheet" showing that Douglas and Vito Marcantonio, a Communist-lining Congressman from New York's East Harlem, had cast 354 identical votes in the House. A lot of others had voted with Marcantonio on many issues, including Nixon, who sided with him 112 times out of roughly 200 votes. Still, the tactic earned Douglas a label...
...Lists of congressional votes on which Douglas had taken the same stand as Rep. Vito Marcantonio (Amer. Labor...