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...Those who held out: Allen, Jenison, Simpson (Ill.); Crawford, Hoffman (Mich.); Gwinn (N.Y.); Nicholson (Mass.); Rich (Pa.); Sanborn (Idaho); Werdel, Phillips (Calif.)-all of whom would qualify as diehard Republicans; and Communist-Liner Marcantonio...
...national defense, the 81st Congress was a body suddenly galvanized. The President's message had hardly been droned out by the reading clerk when the House passed his $1.2 billion Mutual Defense Assistance Program (the Senate already had). The vote in the House: 362 to one (Vito Marcantonio...
...perfect landing at New York's International Airport last week flew a silvery DC-6 with strange markings painted on its sides: L.A.I. Out stepped the suave, spruce U.S. Ambassador to Italy, James C. Dunn, and black-mustached Prince Marcantonio Pacelli, a nephew of the Pope. They were members of a party celebrating a momentous event in Italian commercial aviation, the first flight to the U.S. by an Italian airline...
...three families to an apartment, in cellars and abandoned stores, even in coalbins. The average Puerto Rican was pictured heaving his disease-racked body off the plane and heading straight for a relief center. More sinister yet, he was herded about to vote for Communist-minded Congressman Vito Marcantonio...
Willing But Beset. There was some truth, but a lot of exaggeration in this alarming picture. Last week it was possible to get a clearer and cooler idea of the "Puerto Rican problem." Even Marcantonio's hold on the immigrants was not what it once was. Mayor William O'Dwyer's administration had done a lot to cut down Marcantonio's power, by installing Spanish-speaking teachers and relief workers in the neighborhood, thus convincing the new people that someone besides Vito Marcantonio took an interest in them...