Word: vito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party's best talent, with the exception of Vice Presidential Candidate Glen Taylor, was on hand. For three hours before Wallace appeared, they had exhorted and entertained the crowd. New York's Communist-minded Congressman Vito Marcantonio went through his forensic routine, stamping his foot, convulsively clawing the air. His target was New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, whom he attacked as "FlipFlop Willie" because the mayor, having once praised the American Labor Party, now called it Communist...
They worked with the efficiency of long practice. New York's tough, rabble-rousing Harlem Congressman Vito Marcantonio and his staff wrote the keynote speech for Negro Charles Howard, a Des Moines attorney, who had once been suspended by the Bar Association for misusing funds. Marcantonio himself took charge of the Rules Committee. At his left & right hand sat Hugh Bryson, leftist boss of the C.I.O. marine cooks, and John Abt, smart and sardonic New York labor lawyer, who managed to be everywhere at once throughout the convention's three days...
...pleas of Radio Commentator and Party-Liner William Gailmor (who, at 29, was convicted of stealing an auto and sent to a sanitorium to be treated for a neurosis), the crowd coughed up big & little contributions totaling some $50,000. Their cheering was cued to the frenzied yelling of Vito Marcantonio, who spoke with violent arm-flailings, like a drowning...
...enthusiasm. Kefauver was doing both-by attacking Boss Crump. Thereupon the Boss took over the real campaigning. He bought big ads in Tennessee dailies (most of which favor Kefauver), blasted away at Kefauver's "tainted Red record in Congress." Blustered Crump: "I'd as soon vote for Vito Marcantonio . . . the oxblood Red Communist of New York City." He likened Kefauver to "a pet coon" that turns its head in innocence, "while its foot is feeling around" for something to filch...
...would be lost or badly mauled in the closing rush. Last week, with the bill on the floor at last, the House did its best to oblige. An ill-assorted alliance of the far left and far right leaped in with knives flourishing. New York's Communist-line Vito Marcantonio and left-wing Leo Isacson joined forces with Mississippi's ranting John E. Rankin and Michigan's Paul Shafer...