Word: musmanno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, Columbus Day Parade Chairman Victor Arrigo denounced the Yale map as a "Communist plot." New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case, on hand for Newark's parade curtly dismissed Ericsson as "just an upstart." Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno, author of The Story of the Italians in America charged that the Yalemen "have gone into the moss-covered kitchen of rumor and, on the broken-down stove of wild speculation, fueled by ethnic prejudices have warmed over the stale cabbage of Leifs discovery of America." In the House, New York Democrat Benjamin Rosenthal introduced a bill...
...sharpest words came from a less predictable source. "A free and unfettered press is indispensable to a free country," said Chief Justice John C. Bell Jr. of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. If it is "muzzled or gagged, crime will run even more rampant." Added Justice Michael A. Musmanno: "Curbing crime news is like recommending that no one talk about cancer, on the theory that silence will cause cancer somehow to disappear...
...Bell and Musmanno left no doubts about their conviction that the public has an overriding interest in fighting crime, and that publicity is crucial to the fight. But even so, the jurists lost their argument when the bar association, with only one-sixth of its members in attendance, decided that due process is more important to the public interest...
Scott himself was elected to the Senate in 1958 in an upset victory over former Gov. George M. Leader (who ran Musmanno's unsuccessful primary campaign this year). During six months in the Senate, the Philadelphia has compiled a fairly liberal voting record (he got a 68 per cent rating from the ADA this year, and somewhat less from the Americans for Constitutional Action), with strong support for civil rights and federal spending programs. He has been responsible for measures designed to improve the lot of the state's coal industries and their employees, and in 1962 persuaded President Kennedy...
...lead over Miss Blatt, and she has been slipping in normally Democratic strongholds in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. One explanation for her lag has been the widespread defections from the ticket among Negroes, Jews, and especially Italians. Still bitter over a series of questions Clark addressed to Musmanno about his background during the primary the Italians shout agreement with Scott's charge of "bigotry," in the Blatt campaign. (She records that it is "bigotry" to charge this...