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...influence, can solve these problems. They forget, however, that LaGuardia only dented the city's problems and that most of his projects needed financial support from Washington, support the present national administration is in no mood to give. They forget that LaGuardia also had nasty associates, men like Vito Marcantonio. In fact, to say that anyone can operate in the atmosphere of big city politics without some support from bosses is to either be naive or drugged by campaign propaganda. All that can reasonably be asked of a New York mayor, then, is that by training and accomplishment...
...Brown's was probably the most surpassingly ridiculous. Describing the committee she represented, she said, "It was originally a group of women who got into politics in our district. We get into fights and help do things. We are the ones who put through a coalition and defeated Marcantonio . . . We are supposed to have accomplished more in three years than most organizations have...
When she emphasized once more her committee's record in fighting against Vito Marcantonio in New York City, Mrs. Brown was interrupted by the unpredictable Senator Tobey who said, "Let's leave Mr. Marcantonio out for the present time. You are down here to appear against the nomination of the man whose name is a household word across the country for integrity, character and ability, professionally as an educator, and as a man . . . Don't link Marcantonio with James B. Conant . . . It strikes, me frankly, as unusually presumptious for an organization to come in here and protest the nomination...
Evasive though it was on many subjects, Luchese's testimony nonetheless produced some surprising revelations. By his own statement, his acquaintances, social or otherwise, included Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, the late Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ("I used to talk with him like I was his son"), ex-Congressman Vito Marcantonio (who appointed Luchese's son to West Point), Myles J. Lane, the U.S. district attorney, Federal Judge Thomas Meaney, and Federal Judge Thomas Murphy, the man who prosecuted Alger Hiss. Also brought out during the reading of Luchese's testimony...
...wasn't one of the fellows." Burrows had been "pretty naive," commented Committeeman Harold H. Velde. Said Burrows: "I'll go further than that. I'll say I was stupid." Onetime Cinemactress Karen (Scarface) Morley, with Manhattan's party-lining ex-Congressman Vito Marcantonio along for legal aid, was less naive. She admitted that she was 42 and that her real name was Mildred Linton Vider. But, 33 times when asked questions chiefly about Communist affiliation, she called on the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer...