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Vito Marcantonio

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Vito Marcantonio , 1902-54, American politician, b. New York City. After the age of 18 he was active in community affairs in the Harlem section of New York City. He became a political protégé of Fiorello H. LaGuardia and later managed his political campaigns. Marcantonio served (1930-31) as assistant U.S. district attorney, and in 1934 he ran successfully for Congress on the Republican and Fusion tickets. He was defeated for reelection in 1936. In 1938 he was read out of the Republican party. Nonetheless he won the nomination of that party and of the American Labor party and was... Read more
Nixon, Richard M.
Presidents: A Reference History ... Voorhis, a five-term Democratic liberal. Nixon linked Voorhis with a left-wing representative from New York City, Vito Marcantonio, and falsely claimed that Voorhis had been endorsed by a political action committee of the Congress of Industrial ... Gahagan Douglas for a California seat in the United States Senate ... Read more
Anti-Imperialism
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy ... Cordell Hull believed that free trade would promote peace ... military government. Vito Marcantonio, a Labor Party member ... could hardly lead the "free world" by example, they ... own promise … of free men building an example ... of the North American Free Trade Agreement, and ... Read more

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Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician, 1902-1954.
The Nation; 1/6/1992; Dailey, richard; 1285 words ; Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician The career of Vito Marcantonio, the radical Congressman who represented East Harlem ... Marcantonio, Gerald Meyer notes in his valuable study Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician, 1902-1954, fought for the interests ... Read more
Vito Marcantonio Centennial Celebration Held at the Museum of the City of New York
Italian Voice, The; 12/12/2002; 491 words ; ... the centennial of the birth of Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954), the Museum of the ... Debates, Speeches, and Writings of Vito Marcantonio, edited by Annette T. Rubinstein ... Dr. Gerald Meyer, author of Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician, Dr. Philip ... Read more
FIERI National Announces Blue Print for Italian American Renaissance
Italian Voice, The; 2/4/1999; 1288 words ; ... 100th Anniversary of Vito Marcantonio's birth; and the 550th ... of activities was the Vito Marcantonio Celebration, as a way ... over 12 years about Marcantonio. Mr. Rodi announced the Marcantonio even in his inaugural ... the collaboration of Marcantonio expert Dr. Gerald ... Read more
(book reviews)
Monthly Review; 10/1/1990; Rubinstein, Annette T.; 1381 words ; VITO MARCANTONIO: A DURABLE RADICAL Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician, 1902-1954 by Gerald Meyer. Albany: SUNY Press. 303 pp. $16.95. I spent most of the year after Vito Marcantonio's sudden death reading his life as it was presented in ... Read more
Italian-American Organization Pays Tribute to Roberto Benigni and his
Italian Voice, The; 2/11/1999; 818 words ; ... propelled by the successful Vito Marcantonio Celebration, an event that has ... story of the late Congressman Vito Marcantonio of Italian Harlem. Four hundred ... and community leaders attended Vito Marcantonio: A Recognition and Celebration ... Read more
Recount
The Washington Post; 11/17/1990; 172 words ; ... as Christopher Daly reported {news story, Nov. 11}. I write not to ... Sanders with the late representative Vito Marcantonio. Daly counted Marcantonio and his sidekick, former representative ... Party, as Socialists. However, Marcantonio was widely viewed by Socialists ... Socialist in the same ... Read more
ASK THE GLOBE
The Boston Globe; 12/2/1999; 91 words ; ... covering the campaign of left-wing New York Congressman Vito Marcantonio, claiming a large portion of his support came from ... in the candidates for other offices lined up for Marcantonio. As a result, the congressman's total bulged beyond ... Read more
Bill-O and the Fox: Linkage and Leverage in Postwar Harlem Politics, 1945-1950
Afro - Americans in New York Life and History; 7/1/2003; Anonymous; 4988 words ; ... in Harlem from ALP candidate Vito Marcantonio, whose civil rights rhetoric ... campaigns to reelect O'Dwyer against Marcantonio for mayor, and to replace Communist ... way contest between O'Dwyer, Marcantonio, and Newbold Morris, a protg ... Read more
CEREMONY SOOTHES THOSE LEFT BEHIND FAMILIES REMEMBER FISHERMEN LOST AT SEA
The Boston Globe; 8/10/2003; Steven Rosenberg, Globe Staff; 808 words ; ... Sandra Sinagra and Larry Marcantonio will be the keynote speakers ... hand on her brother's name, Vito Misuraca. "I remember the ... learned that her brother Vito was on the Captain Cosmo ... boat," she said. Joseph Marcantonio shares Favazza's loss, and ... His younger brother, Cosmo Marcantonio, ... Read more
Italian American Radicalism Presentation at Botto House
Italian Voice, The; 9/28/2000; 274 words ; ... Radicalism reappeared in the careers of a series of remarkable leaders, including Carlo Tresca, Fiorello LaGuardia, Vito Marcantonio, and Peter Cacchione. Lastly the contributions of Mario Savio and Fr. James Groppi to the movements of the sixties ... Read more

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