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Pacifist Jeannette Rankin of Montana, first woman elected to Congress, has served two terms in the House. In both terms she has had to face a vote on the terrible issue of war. The first time, in 1917, she spoke a tearful "no." Next year, when she sought Montana's senatorship, she was roundly defeated. Last December, 61, grey-haired and gaunt, she stood alone in the House against war with Japan, voted merely a nervous "present" on the declaration of war against Germany and Italy. Montana raged with shame. When the primary filing time closed in Montana last...
With a single speech, without one wasted word, the Senate voted war with Germany, 88-to-0, war with Italy, 90-to-0. The House voted war with Germany, 393-to-0. (In both House votes, Republican Pacifist Jeannette Rankin cinched her footnote place in history piping "Present"-a refusal to vote.) After the declaration of war with Germany was passed, the House galleries held up the second roll call by noisily tromping out. War with Italy (399-to-0) wasn't worth sitting...
...lone dissenter was Miss Jeannette Rankin, Montana Republican, grey-haired pacifist who also voted, with many a tear, against the declaration of war on April 6, 1917. This time Miss Rankin, to whose pleas for recognition the Speaker was conveniently deaf, mostly sat, with a bewildered smile, muttering over & over to all those who pleaded with her to change her vote: This might be a Roosevelt trick. How do we know Hawaii has been bombed? Remember the Kearny! I don't believe it. In Montana, Republicans raged, cried shame...
Marshall M. Massey, Tulsa, Okla., Culvor Military Academy, Culver, Ind.; John B. Rankin, Newark, Del., Peddie School, Hightstown, N. J.; Leslie G. Ritner, Waterloo, Iowa, The Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N. H.; Charles G. Sellers Jr., Charlotte, N. C., Central High School, Charlotte; Douglas R. Spencer, Eugene, Ore., University High School, Eugene; Hugo G. W. Stockbridge, Forest, Va., Virginia Episcopal School, Lyncliburg; Bernardo H. Tovar, Chicago, III., Portsmouth Priory School, Portsmouth, R. I.; and Charles C. Works Jr., Denver, Colo., Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs, Colo...
...Mississippi's Rankin sat down, New York's Edelstein jumped to his feet. Most popular of the six Jews in the House, esteemed by Democrats and Republicans alike, Mike Edelstein rarely made a speech, yet he was well equipped to answer this slur on his race. Born in Poland 53 years ago, brought to the U.S. when he was three, Mike Edelstein grew up on Manhattan's East Side, studied law at night. After his good friend Dr. William I. Sirovich died in 1939, Mike Edelstein took his seat in the House. Mild and devout, unmarried...