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This American version of the "rotten borough" is not entirely a racial issue. When Dies of Texas slinks into Congress on 12,000 votes, and Rankin of Mississippi warms his seat at the pleasure of a meagre 4,000 citizens, the problem is no longer confined to the Negro's position in the social structure of the country. When thirteen of the twenty-four chairmen and ranking members of the most important committees in the House of Representatives come from poll tax states the question has gone far beyond mere protection of the Black minority. When ten per cent...
Some of the long-winded Congressional debate was on the issue of State's rights. But mostly the fight was purely and simply over poll taxes, with conservative Southerners attacking. Mississippi's John E. ("Silent John") Rankin called the bill: "A monstrosity. ... It is part of a long-range communistic program to change our form of government and our way of life." Cried Alabama's Sam Hobbs: "The worst thing since Reconstruction...
...Pollock, J. W. '44, Lowell I-33 ELI 2481 Porell, W. J., 2nd. '45, Kirkland H-42 TRO 2891 Potter, R. M. '46, Winthrop F-41 ELI 0859 Q Quimby, D. '44, Leverett E-51 TRO 1439 Quizzenbury, J. A. '46, Eliot B-53 ELI 0936 R Rankin, J. B. '45, Lowell G-42 KIR 4725 Reed, D. 43, Adams C-56 TRO 0460 Reed, F. W. '46, Eliot G-22 ELI 2552 Reed, W. M. II, '46, Winthrop F-41 ELI 0859 Renshaw, A. H. '44, 60 Mt. Auburn St. ELI 2596 Reynolds, P. '46, Eliot...
...Republican primary the choice lies between a 57-year-old bachelor, Wellington D. Rankin (brother of pacifist Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin) and Jew-baiting, Fascist-minded ex-Congressman Jacob Thorkelson. Ignored by Montana's larger city newspapers, Jakie Thorkelson has conducted a busy rural campaign. His "issue": international bankers. All signs pointed to Rankin's nomination...
...cabin, (thus "necessarily absent" from Senate roll calls), has once before jumped over to the Republican Party to beat an enemy. That was in 1938, when he backed Jakie Thorkelson to oust Representative Jerry O'Connell. Last week Montanans wondered whether Senator Wheeler, in the event Murray and Rankin are nominated, would again cross party lines. They wondered, too, on what issues Wheeler could campaign...