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Everyone assumed that the special, temporary Dies committee and the 78th Congress would expire together. But crafty John Rankin, champion of white supremacy and Southern womanhood, foe of civil liberties, thought otherwise...
Shrewd Parliamentarian Rankin moved softly and surely. Several weeks before Congress convened he let it be known that he would try to reconstitute the committee. House leaders, sure that they could block the move by burying the resolution in the Rules Committee, paid little attention. Rankin beat them with a flanking attack never before used in Congress...
After the Fact. House leaders moved quickly to pick up the pieces. To keep Rankin from exercising the balance of power, if he should be placed on the committee, the membership was fixed at six Democrats, three Republicans. Rankin was scarcely expected to seek the chairmanship. To do so he would have to give up his chairmanship of the Committee on Veterans' Legislation. The rest was up to the House, which would control the committee's membership and its funds...
...minutes later Mississippi's rabble-rousing John Rankin brought the House back to its lowest common denominator, gave long life to the Dies Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities...
P.A.C.'s record to date in its few tries at the polls has been up & down. Its strength was suddenly dramatized by the defeat or abdication of Congressmen Joe Starnes, John Costello and Martin Dies-all from the South, where P.A.C. is least powerful. But Congressmen John Rankin and Gene Cox, also from the South, handily won renomination despite P.A.C., and their colleagues in the House generally breathed a little easier...