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...Voted down, 222-117, a proposal for a $5,000,000 Veterans Hospital for Negroes at Booker T. Washington's birthplace, Franklin County, Va. Support for it was led by Dixiecrat John Rankin, who said piously that it would provide better treatment for Negroes. Opposition was led by the House's only Negro members, Democrats William L. Dawson of Illinois and Adam Clayton Powell of New York, who objected to it as segregation...
Petitions. All last week, petitions to save Willie McGee's life poured in on Dixiecrat Governor Fielding Wright. Many an honest person who recognized the Communist tactics also urged clemency for McGee. Fundamental point in their plea: no white man has ever been executed for rape in Mississippi...
Georgia's Dixiecrat Gene ("Goober") Cox was in a black and angry mood. "I am sorry to bother you," he wrote last week to ten fellow members of the House Rules Committee, "but at the insistence of the Speaker, I have called a meeting of the Rules Committee for tomorrow morning at 10:30 to give consideration . . . [to] the wheat bill for India...
They were exposed when a Senate Investigations subcommittee set up shop in Jackson, Miss, to examine charges that a pro-Truman Democratic State Committee, which began dispensing the state's federal patronage after the Dixiecrat revolt of 1948, had been peddling jobs in wholesale lots. The charges turned out to be true enough. A steady parade of smalltown postmasters and rural mail carriers told how they had paid or "contributed" from $250 to $1,000 each to get their appointments. One postal employee had even "contributed" $750 to the rump committee to get transferred to another city...
Eight weeks after President Truman's request that 2,000,000 long tons of surplus U.S. grains be sent to India's relief, Congress still hemmed, hawed and stalled. Georgia's Dixiecrat Gene ("Goober") Cox and Ohio's Republican Clarence Brown sat on the bill in the House Rules Committee...