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...replying to Mississippi's fuzzy-headed Representative John Elliott Rankin, No. 1 Jew-baiter of the House, who has busied himself lately trying to convince the House that the time is ripe for a negotiated peace between Britain and Germany. Rankin had just told a deathly-still House: "Mr. Speaker, Wall Street and a little group of our international Jewish brethren are still attempting to harass the President . . . and the Congress of the United States into plunging us into the European war, unprepared. . . . These international bankers are so afraid that this peace movement . . . might take root . . . before they...
This was the result of negotiations terminated on March 24 by Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, Joseph Stefani, secretary-treasurer of the Cooks' and Pastry Cooks' Union, and Eva Rankin of the Waitresses' Union. According to that contract, the University agreed to dismiss all employee-union members whose unpaid dues up to twelve dollars were not paid before April...
Both Mr. Stefani and Miss Rankin agreed that far fewer employees than was expected decided to give up their jobs rather than become union members "in good standing." Most of those who did leave, moreover, "came from the lower ranks...
Aside from Eva Rankin's waitresses, the following were replaced by new employees from Stefani's union: two dishmen and a pantry worker from the Freshman Union; a cook, salad man, and a busboy from Winthrop; an busboy and a truckman from Leverett; one glass-woman from Lowell; a busboy, a kitchen man, potwasher, dish man and spare man from the Main Kitchen on Boylston Street; a pot washer from the Medical School; and a utility man from the Business School...
...Rathbone was "adopted unanimously and unopposed" by the constituency of her late husband, Flying Officer John Rankin Rathbone, who in 1939 was Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply. Twelve other women are M.P.s: three, like Mrs. Rathbone, succeeded their husbands...