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...group of politicians, superpatriots, businessmen. Its purpose was to combat the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, to ring doorbells and get out the vote, just the way P.A.C. did. It would have a blacklist, just like P.A.C. Targets of A.A. were such P.A.C.-backed Congressmen as Vito Marcantonio, Hugh De-Lacey, Edmund V. Bobrowicz (TiME, Sept. 30). But as salts in a cooled solution, when agitated, crystallize into some odd shapes, some oddly familiar shapes appeared in A.A. At the bottom...
...Peace's membership rolls there was plenty of window dressing with such innocent names as Songstress Lily Pons and Author Henry Seidel Canby. But there were also the names of New York's Communist Councilmen Peter V. Cacchione and Ben Davis, Manhattan's Party-line Congressman Vito Marcantonio, Daily Worker Columnist Frederick V. Field. Communist-dominated unions were heavily represented...
...Vito Marcantonio, the most vocal Communist-line member of Congress, and left-wing Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (husband of boogie-woogie Pianist Hazel Scott) had won not only the Democratic and American Labor Party primaries, but the Republican as well...
...unexpected defection highlighted the opening round of the house debate on the controversial loan, and it arrayed with the Republican opposition such hitherto-staunch administration supporters as Reps. Adolph Sabath, (D), N.Y., dean of the House, Hugh Delacy, (D), Wash., Emanuel Cellar, (D), N.Y., and Vito Marcantonio...
...turned out to be Commerce Secretary Henry A. Wallace, who had written him a letter of endorsement saying: "I wish you all success." Democrats and Republicans were astounded. But Manhattan's Communists, seeing a chance for "an important labor victory" (and incidentally a Congressional partner for their idol Vito Marcantonio), were not surprised at all. They had already marshaled their forces...