Word: marcantonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marcantonio. The little padrone was the passionate 18th's new-style ward boss and idol...
...wrong with the machine. New York's anti-Communist Liberal Party, veterans' groups, old-line, anti-Tammany Democrats, and independent voters began to harass Marc and talk up a new deal for East H:1 cm. To help them along, Candidate Bryan invaded the grimiest corners of Marcantonio's dead end with an oldfashioned, no-quarter campaign. Patronage or no patronage, Marcantonio would have to hustle...
...Hell." Last week, in a debate with Bryan before 1,500 bellicose voters, he did. Out for emotional exercise, the crowd heckled Bryan until Marcantonio shushed them with the remark: "Tomorrow it will be reported . . . that Marcantonio had his hoodlums here...
...irate woman then tackled Boss Marc on his pro-Russian voting record in the House-a thrust that brought a new round of boos. By the time Marcantonio closed his remarks with a ringing "My opponent, Bryan, can go plumb, straight to hell!" he was glaring and disheveled, and voters were taking off their coats in defiance of police...
...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...