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...seen two especially remarkable, though perhaps temporary, conversions-of New York's gangling, muscle-bound Ham Fish, and excitable pinko Vito Marcantonio. Fish took the floor to condemn the bill unsparingly until his colleague, New Jersey's white-haired, red-faced Charles Aubrey Eaton, quietly asked him how he was going to vote. Representative Fish gulped heavily, admitted that he would vote for the bill, faded out of the debate. Same evening little pinko Marcantonio, who had firmly voted against all national-defense appropriations and foreign-policy moves, jumped up, shrieked...
...think it is necessary. . . ." said pinko Vito Marcantonio...
...Representatives who had fought improvements for Guam two years ago now paid their respects to the "contemptible, squint-eyed sons of the Rising Sun." The authorization went through by acclamation, with one lone Nay registered against it: the methodical, dutiful Nay of New York's left-wing Vito Marcantonio, who has voted against almost every bill for U. S. defense...
Besides these unusual circumstances, the picture leaps into the middle of the heated U. S. argument between isolationists and interventionists. It shows shots of Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Representative Vito Marcantonio and ex-Editor Verne Marshall (see col. 1) denouncing the President's foreign policy, Franklin Roosevelt delivering his recent broadcast to the nation and his message to Congress, Dr. George Gallup commenting on the ballots which showed that 60% of the U. S. public favor increased aid to Britain even at the risk...
...With a caustic reference to Hoovers past visits to nightclubs ("a Stork Club detective"), Congressman Vito Marcantonio of New York declared: "The FBI should be stopped from engaging in inquisitionlike tactics in handling crimes no more serious than stealing a bag of peanuts...