Word: marcantonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solemnly stepping through their paces, the Senators first received the House-passed Marcantonio bill, which would outlaw the poll tax in eight Southern states. On cue, bombastic old Tom Connally rose up to shake his grey-white mane and speak his piece about States' rights. "Because my own State of Texas does not conduct its affairs as the State of New York thinks it should conduct them," he declaimed, "these crusaders, these Sir Galahads, mount their steeds and come down into Texas to modify us, and to Christianize us, and to liberalize us, and to modernize...
Senator Connally was cast in the role of a filibustering Southerner who feared that the Senate might actually invoke cloture† and bring the distasteful Marcantonio bill to a vote. He played it straight, without a single giveaway. In his most sonorous tones he pleaded: "Ah ... do not choke us, do not throw around us the cloak of silence. ... We beg of you not to throttle us, not to throttle the truth, not to throttle the right...
...general patience of the U.S. people. For soon the whole U.S. will have to listen to about as much Southern oratory on the race question as anyone can reasonably endure. For of all things, the first item of business scheduled to come up before the returning Congress is the Marcantonio anti-poll-tax bill...
...Southerners in Congress are already overheated by the long States' rights wrangling during the soldier-vote-bill debate. They have been brought to a boil by the Supreme Court decision. Now they face a bill authored by New York's Communistic Vito Marcantonio. They are ready to oppose it with 1,000 amendments, no less-and with weeks on weeks of unrestrained oratory, pro & con everything in sight...
...case might have ended there, if Loury from his cell had not appealed to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Negro Judge William H. Hastie, onetime aid to War Secretary Stimson and dean of the Howard University School of Law, and New York Congressman Vito Marcantonio, took up the case. Evidence which had been presented in Noumea courts and affidavits showed, they said, that Loury and Fisher had been railroaded...