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...well as their children, grandchildren, etc.) that they had perfect attendance records in the House during the first session of the 69th Congress. These Representatives never missed a roll call, whether for a quorum or a vote: Cannon,† Missouri; Green, Florida; Hill, Washington; Huddleston, Alabama; Quin and Rankin, Mississippi; Swank, Oklahoma, Democrats; McLaughlin and Mapes, Michigan; Miller, Washington, Republicans...
...more unnecessary runs were made in the ninth while the disappointed Princeton rooters were kiling silently out of the stand. Rankin, who relieved Kellogg, weakened and passed Zarakov, who had been hitting the ball hard all afternoon. Tobin followed with another timely single and DeRham doubled, scoring both men. In the last half of the ninth the shut our Barbee deserved was spoiled when two hit batters reached first in succession after two men were out and a single sent one of them across...
...Wilson 1 0 0 0 0 0(2) Lackey 1 0 0 0 0 0(3) Fowler 1 0 0 0 0 0 -- -- -- -- -- --Totals 34 1 7 27 20 3(1) Batted for Goeltz in fifth inning.(2) Batted for Kellogg in eighth inning.(3) Batted for Rankin in ninth inning
Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis received a letter from Representative Rankin, Democrat from Mississippi. The Congressman first related that in the Robert E. Lee mansion at Arlington, Va., there hangs an autographed copy of a speech by Robert G. Ingersoll. This, said the Congressman, "is offensive to every decent, loyal, self-respecting individual from the South. . . an unusual and unnecessary desecration" of the Lee mansion...
...further corridor talk some stated that Mr. Rankin had flung at Mr. Mills an unprintable epithet. Others averred that he had not done so, but had merely started to. Mr. Rankin settled the question: "I would never call any white man by that name...