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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...
...Cervi, a onetime Denver Post reporter, had played his cards right and had actually trumped a Republican Governor and Congressman. Rhode Island had elected Democratic Congressmen, a Governor and a Senator. Despite a rough campaign, the Dewey landslide, and almost unanimous newspaper opposition, Manhattan's Communist-echo Congressman Vito Marcantonio was reelected...
...sprawling 18th Congressional District is a verminous, crime-ridden slum called East Harlem. Its hordes of Italians, Puerto Ricans, Jews and Negroes have traditionally voted Republican. But in the last decade a new force came into power: the patchwork patronage machine of shrill, stooped, angry-eyed, pro-Communist Representative Vito...
...last week New York politicos were talking about the fact that Vito's eight year hammer lock on his district had begun to slip. His grip was partially loosened in the August primaries, when he won the Democratic nomination by a mere 562 votes and lost the Republican nomination to ex-A.A.F. Colonel Frederick V. P. Bryan, a crisp and confident lawyer. In his last two campaigns Vito had won both primaries, and that in the Red-rimmed American Labor Party to boot...
Taut, 43-year-old Vito Marcantonio was born in the congressional district he lives in and represents. To its gunmen, madams, policy and dope peddlers, he is "The Hon. Fritto Misto" (Mixed Fry), the man who began as a Republican with the blessing of East Harlem's Fiorello LaGuardia, the man who ladles out jobs, pocket money, speeches-anything for votes...