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That was too much for slack-chinned John Rankin, Mississippi's loudest demagogue. He hopped up and shouted...
...John Rankin's hair was flying as he shouted back: "Whenever I get down to the gentleman's level as it is reflected down here by this FEPC [Fair Employment Practice Committee] and Communists that he has been mixed up with...
...Slight (140 lbs.), aging (62) John Rankin charged down the aisle, leaped upon the bullnecked, ham-handed Representative from Michigan. They clinched and Rankin began yanking at the 195-lb. ex-lumberjack's hair. Hook did not try to strike his opponent ("A gentleman can't strike an old man").† Members separated them...
...Country's Good? In the cloakrooms conservative Democrats talked darkly of expelling Hook from the House; Hookmen suggested the same for Rabble-Rouser Rankin. Gleeful Republicans called it "a Democratic fight" and dealt themselves out. The peacemakers' suggestion was an apology from both contestants. The next day Hook did apologize-for three minutes. Rankin did not. He made a statement "that you may know exactly how I feel. . . . I was not responsible for what occurred yesterday...
John Elliott Rankin, Mississippi's demagogic champion of white supremacy, asked Congress to change its custom of calling the nine women members of the House "gentlewomen," instead proposed that they be called "ladies." Quoting dictionary definitions, Gentleman Rankin said: "The term 'gentlewoman' puts the ladies one social step below the 'gentleman' of the House . . . I for one recognize no social distinction...