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Speakers for the evening were as follows: Robert Rankin, Simmons College, Chairman; Warren S. Tryon, Simmons College; Veit Valentin, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and Saville Davis, Christian Science Monitor. Such forums are held under the auspices of the Harvard College Observatory...
...Said Mississippi's poodle-haired John Rankin: "While Communism is being driven from Russia under the scorpion lash of an outraged public opinion . . . it has been powerful enough in this country to force this measure to a vote...
Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, who loves the New Deal, took the easy out: he called the report "nothing short of magnificent." Mississippi's Congressman John Rankin, who hates the New Deal, called it "the most fantastic conglomeration of bureaucratic stupidity ever sent to Congress." Neither could have read through it at the time they commented...
This man Roosevelt has a miraculous talent for pushing Southern Senators to the verge of frustration. Ever since Jeanette Rankin did her one-woman stand in the House on that day, a little cabal of Congressmen and Senators has been sharpening its collective fangs in anticipation of the next wartime budget. They swore to high heaven that the "boondoggling peacetime agencies" would be slashed to the bone when the new estimates came up for approval, and chortled with glee when they thought of how a perfectly just demand for economy could be used to asphyxiate the New Deal...
...year's end, asked Oklahomans to vote for Republican Senatorial Candidate E. H. Moore instead of 100% New Dealing Senator Josh Lee. In Montana, political advertisements for Democratic Senator James E. Murray listed his record on foreign policy, contrasting it with the pacifist record of Republican Candidate Rankin. The ads did not show that the record was compiled by Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin (who is not running for re-election), while Murray's opponent is her brother, Wellington D. Rankin...