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...went to Stephen Joseph Pigott, managing director of the John Brown shipyards where they were built. The award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire went to George Patterson (Cunard-White Star's chief naval architect) and Donald M. Skiffington (John Brown yard director). Honest Tommy Rankin, foreman of the riveters who put the Queen Mary together, became a member of the Order of the British Empire...
...THOMAS RANKIN '41 Harvard Law School Cambridge, Mass...
Messrs. Gasque and Rankin and their committees are men dedicated to any & every proposal to pay more money to anyone who wore a uniform, even though the bill for veterans' benefits already tots up to $600,000,000 each year (about 8% of the budget). Franklin Roosevelt pays both groups plenty of attention, for it was they who led the fight and passed the $2,000,000,000 Bonus over his veto...
Until last year law required that a World War veteran be at least 30% disabled for his wife to get a pension when he died. John Elliott Rankin proposed that this disability requirement be lowered to 10%, so more widows would get more money. Franklin Roosevelt reluctantly compromised on 20% rather than face another fight with veteran-conscious Congressmen...
...this year Pensioner Gasque began to outpropose Pensioner Rankin. While Mr. Rankin languished with laryngitis, shrewd Mr. Gasque assaulted the Treasury with no less than nine new bills. But last week found Mr. Gasque bedded in Walter Reed Hospital with a reported heart attack and Mr. Rankin's lieutenant, Congressman Glenn Griswold of Peru, Ind. took his side's opportunity to steal a march. He whipped the old Rankin 10% Disability Bill onto the floor, under the unusual procedure of suspending the rules. The bill could never have reached the House but for quick conniving by Administration Leaders...