Word: marcantonio
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...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...
...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...
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...
...East Harlem's workaday citizens, however, Marcantonio is the man who fought Lend-Lease and the draft-until Germany invaded Russia; the man who has repeatedly denied Communist leanings while faithfully following the gyrations of the party line. Tammany, the C.I.O.'s P.A.C. and the A.L.P. were all supporting little Marc for re-election-but that might not be enough...