Word: vito
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...loan, 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...
...until he was 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...
...matters of national defense, the 81st Congress was a body suddenly galvanized. The President's message had hardly been droned out by the reading clerk when the House passed his $1.2 billion Mutual Defense Assistance Program (the Senate already had). The vote in the House: 362 to one (Vito Marcantonio...
Dello Joio: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra (Edward Vito, harp, with the Little Orchestra Society, Thomas K. Scherman conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). U.S. Composer Dello Joio (TIME, May 22) manages to write charmingly and effectively for the harp without sounding too much like either Debussy or Ravel. On the other side of the record, David Diamond's Music for Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" sounds like little more than warmed-over Prokofiev. Both performances and recordings: good...