Following his congressional service, Manasco worked for the National Coal Association as its legislative counsel.
Manasco was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Walter W. Bankhead.
During the early part of the Second World War, he railed against the measures of agencies like the Office of Price Administration: Recently the Office of Price Administration issued a regulation placing a ceiling on the ancient game of pool and on the new national pastime, bowling.
Of course, it is very important to call to the attention of the American people that their sons and brothers are dying in the Solomons, by placing a ceiling on these all-American pastimes.He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1948.
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