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...thing that may clinch the election for Dewey could be the few thousand anti-Dewey votes that are wasted on the American Labor Party nominee. The ALP, Vito Marcantonio's group, has been widely tagged with the Red label and is not expected to draw many votes, especially since the Korean War. However, in a really close election the marginal ballots could make the difference...
...helpful. To Republican charges that she had left a Communist-line voting record in the House, he replied: "I'm not familiar with all of Mrs. Douglas' votes. I'm quite sure [she] voted her conscientious convictions. The mere fact that she voted the same as Marcantonio I don't regard as of any significance." Then, somewhat confusingly, he added: "The Senate could stand another dose of brains and beauty. Margaret Chase Smith-she's a Republican-but a wonderful, charming woman. We could stand another shot...
...with no strings attached, to Franco's Spain. The House argued over that one. Supporters saw it as buying the cooperation of Spain in event of war in Europe, and at least as morally justified as a loan to Tito. Not only New York's pinko Vito Marcantonio was disturbed by the loan; Virginia's conservative Howard Smith demanded to know what guarantee anybody had that Franco would help the West in case of war. What was Franco's "note" worth-"a guy like that?" he demanded. But the loan went through...
...dissenter (New York's Marcantonio being absent): Pennsylvania's Republican Robert Rich, who for 13 years has been rising regularly in the House to demand after each appropriation, "Where are we going to get the money...
...forced out because of his Communist line, close Wallace adviser in the 1948 campaign, later named by Whittaker Chambers as a Red. Pressman formally resigned from the American Labor Party, one of the Progressives' wings. The party gave him a characteristic farewell. Snapped A.L.P. Chairman Vito Marcantonio, New York Congressman: "It is obvious that Mr. Pressman is disappointed in the amount of fees he expected to get from the progressive movement when he left the C.I.O. Not having received such fees he has now joined the parade of fakers . . . Good riddance...