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...realm has been tremendously enlarged by national emergency. Facing Martha Sharp in the 14th District here, he has opposed workable trade agreements, price-control, and even a federal program of hot lunches for school children. His zealous financial pruning stopped, however, when he cast a ballot for the Wood-Rankin Un-American Activities inquisition. Knutson, who might assume leadership of the Ways and Means Committee, did his best for democracy in withdrawing during the vote on the Anti-Poll Tax Bill. Energetic Sol Bloom, a perfect picture of a legislator, would turn over his chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee...
...appearing before the Seventy Ninth Congress, Democrats from California voted with Democrats from Massachusetts. With Southern Democrats maintaining a constant bloe to swing the balance right or left, Congressmen split along strict party lines on everything from the Tidelands Oil Bill to the proposal to establish a permanent Wood-Rankin Committee...
...issue which confronts every liberal organization in America today--the issue which the American Veterans Committee faced in its Des Monies convention last summer and which threatens imminently in the ranks of the CIO: the issue of Communist domination. It is a question which on the one hand Congressman Rankin and others of his ilk have obscured by their irresponsible use of the epithet "Red" so as to render the word well-nigh meaningless, and on the other by the Communists in their unwillingness to declare themselves as such. By bringing up the question at an open meeting, the Liberal...
Answering the roll call of last week's extraordinary caucus were such practiced pork-barrelers as Tennessee's cob-nosed Kenneth McKellar, Mississippi's Bilbo and Rankin, Louisiana's paunchy John Overton. Bilbo, still convalescing from inflammation of the mouth (see PEOPLE), apologized for his inability to orate. Overton, running two degrees of fever, left early. But others jumped up to accuse Harry Truman of defying the will of Congress...
Little time was wasted in extolling the public benefits of any of the curtailed projects. The meeting nearly broke up in the stamping, hurrahs and whistles which greeted Rankin's joyous reading of the news flash that Henry Wallace had been fired from the Cabinet (see cut). When the Roosevelt's mirrored walls had ceased to shake, the session resolved to reappropriate the whole caboodle when Congress meets again...