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...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...
Vito Vetoed. The House, at last, got all its committee assignments straightened out, but not without some hurt feelings and one bitter scrap. All hell broke loose when North Carolina's conservative Robert ("Muley") Doughton submitted the name of New York's tough, pinko Vito Marcantonio as a member of the potent Judiciary Committee. Marcantonio, the only American Laborite in the House, had fought defense measures before the Nazi attack on Russia in 1941; afterwards he had screamed for an A.E.F. He had infuriated Southerners by plugging for bills against poll taxes and lynching. Croaked wrathful Judiciary Committee...
...York City, other pre-Pearl Harbor non-interventionists won renominations by decisive majorities. Among them were Representative William B. Barry, Democrat from the Second District, and Communist party-line follower Representative Vito Marcantonio, who was named by his own American Labor Party and the Democrats and Republicans, besides...