Word: vito
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when it was read. Some Congressmen looked up and yelled "Boo" at the galleries. The vote in the House was quick and overwhelming: 331 to override (225 Republicans and 106 Democrats); 83 to sustain (11 Republicans, 71 Democrats and New York City's man of the Labor Party, Vito Marcantonio...
Meet the Press (Fri. 10 p.m., Mutual). Representative Vito Marcantonio of New York City v. four reporters...
Party lines sagged and ancient political enemies got together. On the opposition side, New York's Leftist Vito Marcantonio was joined by far-right Republicans like Michigan's Clare Hoffman, Pennsylvania's Robert Rich; by isolationists like Wisconsin's Lawrence Smith...
...Leader Bob Taft took off his glasses, rubbed his face and yawned prodigiously in his front-row seat. When the Congress rose to applaud at the end of the speech, Harry Truman's grim expression was outdone only by that of New York's Communist-line Representative, Vito Marcantonio. To be different, Little Marc "applauded" by tapping his palm with a cigaret...
Meanwhile the routine early work of both Houses went on. The organization of committees was only partly concluded, but it squeezed plaintive cries from Vito Marcantonio, the rabble-rousing Congressman from Manhattan's upper East Side. As the only minor party member (American Labor Party) left in the House, he seemed in danger of being stranded-each major party voiced deadpan assumptions that the other would take care of seating him on committees. Another left-winger, Florida's Russophile Claude Pepper, was also disenchanted at finding himself eased off the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee-the wages of singing...