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...Truman also found time to accept a life membership in the Kansas City Chapter of the National Sojourners, chat with visiting Kiwanians, receive a photograph of himself attending the Washington banquet of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and bandy civilities with such characters as Mississippi's Representative Rankin and Missouri's Senator Briggs, who had little to do with matters of state. Full of the Christmas spirit, Harry Truman still liked to see everybody...
...isolationist Chicago Tribune characteristically said: "We must make very sure that we have the most atom bombs and the best airplanes in which to fly them." Representative Rankin was of like mind: "Let us keep the strongest air force on earth as well as the strongest Navy; then, if the international conference does collapse because of Communistic pressure from the other side, then let us look after America...
Mississippi's turkey-gobbler John E. Rankin, chairman of the House Veterans Committee, which has been "investigating" the hospitals, last week gave them a clean coat of whitewash, just as newsmen had predicted he would: "Our veterans are receiving fine treatment and handling...
Eleanor Roosevelt looked straight at Representative Rankin and wrote in her syndicated column: "In the interest of the taxpayer as well as ... of the young men who fought this war, I hope there will be a real investigation by qualified people...
...Hook had the last word. Said he: "If John Rankin would resign his seat, I'd be happy to go with him-for the good of the country." Rankin, for once, held his tongue...