Word: marcantonio
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
...about the letters in December, even knew about the plan to air them on the floor of the House. Mayne himself had told him, charged the Sun, and Mayne had also reported to the Dies Committee his negotiations with Jackson. Why had not Mr. Whitley spoken up? Said Congressman Marcantonio of New York: "If this statement is true, then the counsel of this committee engaged in this conspiracy just as much as Mr. Mayne...