Word: marcantonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...membership rolls there was plenty of window dressing with such innocent names as Songstress Lily Pons and Author Henry Seidel Canby. But there were also the names of New York's Communist Councilmen Peter V. Cacchione and Ben Davis, Manhattan's Party-line Congressman Vito Marcantonio, Daily Worker Columnist Frederick V. Field. Communist-dominated unions were heavily represented...
...Vito Marcantonio, the most vocal Communist-line member of Congress, and left-wing Congressman Adam Clayton Powell (husband of boogie-woogie Pianist Hazel Scott) had won not only the Democratic and American Labor Party primaries, but the Republican as well...
...unexpected defection highlighted the opening round of the house debate on the controversial loan, and it arrayed with the Republican opposition such hitherto-staunch administration supporters as Reps. Adolph Sabath, (D), N.Y., dean of the House, Hugh Delacy, (D), Wash., Emanuel Cellar, (D), N.Y., and Vito Marcantonio...
...Commerce Secretary Henry A. Wallace, who had written him a letter of endorsement saying: "I wish you all success." Democrats and Republicans were astounded. But Manhattan's Communists, seeing a chance for "an important labor victory" (and incidentally a Congressional partner for their idol Vito Marcantonio), were not surprised at all. They had already marshaled their forces...
...Bankhead and Tennessee's McKellar (see cut)-none but the most gullible galleryite was taken in. Everybody else knew that a cynical Senate had quietly made an election-year deal, arranged everything backstage in advance. There would be 1) no filibuster, 2) no cloture, 3) no Marcantonio bill...