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...real riot started. One demonstrator climbed the flagpole, ripped down the U.S. flag. "Good, good," cried an elderly Chinese greybeard. Bolder rioters stormed into the embassy compound; on their heels came a frenzied mob. The rioters crashed into the embassy building itself, shouting, sacking and destroying. U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin's safe was hurled out of a second-floor window onto the roof of his Cadillac. Desks, Venetian blinds, papers, files and other office equipment fell in a hail from the embassy window. Secret files and papers were strewn about like wastepaper. Some of the rioters shouted: "Destroy...
...argument before the Supreme Court on school desegregation. Brownell read every word, made extensive changes in the bulky, complex Justice Department brief. When the question came as to whether the Supreme Court should declare school segregation unconstitutional. Assistant Attorney General J. Lee Rankin recalls that the tension in the great marble chamber was "electric." Says Rankin: "Attorney General Brownell had directed me to say that the Government thought it was the duty of the court to find segregation unconstitutional. That was the answer I gave...
...School of Mines and Montana State University, won his master's degree in history and political science at 31, was appointed professor of Latin American and Far Eastern history at Montana State. He gave up teaching for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1943 (having defeated Republican Jeannette Rankin, who cast the lone congressional vote against a U.S. declaration of war after Pearl Harbor), served five terms and carved out an influential place for himself on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In 1944 Franklin Roosevelt appointed him presidential representative to study political and economic conditions in China...
Considering the exaggeration, distortion and misinterpretation that you employed in trying to ridicule Estes Kefauver, I am not surprised you could find no one better than John Rankin of Mississippi to quote from to back up your opinions...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). IlTrovatore, with Milanov, Rankin, Baum, Warren...