Word: vito
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three families to an apartment, in cellars and abandoned stores, even in coalbins. The average Puerto Rican was pictured heaving his disease-racked body off the plane and heading straight for a relief center. More sinister yet, he was herded about to vote for Communist-minded Congressman Vito Marcantonio...
...hold on the immigrants was not what it once was. Mayor William O'Dwyer's administration had done a lot to cut down Marcantonio's power, by installing Spanish-speaking teachers and relief workers in the neighborhood, thus convincing the new people that someone besides Vito Marcantonio took an interest in them...
...following two days the party's left wing was-comparatively speaking-as sweet as pie. Paul Robeson busied himself with nothing more provocative than singing 01' Man River. Manhattan's leftist firebrand, Congressman Vito Marcantonio, emitted a few wild yips, but concentrated on a routine target-Harry Truman, whom he described as a "little alderman in a big house...
Seldom does Manhattan's sleek, sharp Representative Vito Marcantonio, a tireless party-liner, make much sense on the floor of the House. But last week, as a one-man minority, he had a chance to deliver a shrewd blow while he enjoyed the discomfiture of the two majority parties. "It is obvious to everybody," he said, in his shrill and rasping voice, "that everybody wants civil rights as an issue but not as a law. That goes for Harry Truman, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party...
...State Dean Acheson, though many were privately critical of his foreign policy in Asia. It was the Republicans who loudly demanded that something more decisive be done. Then last week, to the amazement of everybody, House Republicans teamed up with Southern Democrats and New York's Communist-line Vito Marcantonio to defeat a $60 million installment of economic aid for Korea. The vote...