Vladeck’s Political Antagonists Harbor Deep Respect for Him
Whether or not B. Charney Vladeck, general manager of the Jewish
Daily Forward and a veteran Socialist, has succeeded in
persuading enough citizens of the Eighth Congressional District
of Brooklyn to vote for him today as their Congressman, his
opponents will concede that they have been in a grand scrap.
For Vladeck is one man who has been able to carry his spirit of
enterprise directly into the political arena. And it has always
been a punch that has proved discomfiting to those who got in
the way of it.  In 1917 Vladeck was elected to the Board of
Aldermen on the Socialist ticket. Almost immediately thereafter
Tammany began to feel the sting of his tongue. So powerful an
impression did he make upon the men of the wigwam that one of
them paid him the following tribute:  “Never debate with that
man Vladeck,” he warned the braves. “When he shoots off his
face, he is likely to hit you in the weakest spot you got.”
Vladeck has been paid many complim