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...greater threat to civil liberties than does the Barnes Bill; it is not limited to the field of education and there is far more likelihood that it will become law. The Bill provides for a committee on subversive activities in the Massachusetts legislature which would bring the Dics-Rankin-Thomas type of investigation down to the state level...
With the gradual passing of such clowns and demagogues as Theodore Bilbo, John Rankin, Eugene Talmadge, there was reason to believe that political responsibility was growing in the South. But the very sound of Earl Long's gravel voice was enough to cause the city's heart to skip a beat. So Sam Jones's fight was also Chep Morrison's fight...
Mississippi voters had given ranting old Congressman John E. Rankin, last of their nationally notorious demagogues, the worst beating of his career. In a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Theodore G. Bilbo, John Rankin finished fifth among five...
Along with periodical dictums on American freedom by those stern guardians of national safety J. Parnell Thomas and John Rankin, a statement by another authority has been receiving considerable publicity lately. His name-Thomas Jefferson. His words-"If there be any among you who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left to combat...
...major exception, Jefferson's policy would stand today as universally right as it stood in 1801. The exception-civil service-has created an issue which both Rankin reactionaries and radicals consistently confound. On the one hand, the cavilling investigations by Rankin and Thomas suggest that anybody can be a dangerous enemy to the nation's security, while on the other, the radicals claim that nobody can hurt the country as long as true democracy is strong and vital. The fact is that, unlike movie stars, unlike writers, and unlike teachers, many civil service employees are in charge of business which...