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...DAVID RANKIN BARBEE...
...FEPC. 15. John Elliott Rankin, U.S. Repre sentative from Mississippi for 32 years...
Pouring outside money into a sectional campaign is a gamble: you never know whether the aid the funds give a candidate will outweigh the bad publicity they often involve. In the past, out-of-state support for the opponents of Congressman Rankin and Senator LaFollette only irritated voters. This is the risk Professor Howe, MacLeish, and Schlesinger took when they formed the Civil Liberties Appeal to defeat Senators McCarthy and Jenner...
...were many others, including a rash of write-ins. Of the other 17 Democrats who received votes (13 write-ins), Truman led with 25, followed by Senator Paul Douglas, Senator Brien McMahon, Governor G. Mennen Williams, Vice-President Alben Barkley, Senator Robert S. Kerr, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Senator John Rankin and Governor Paul Dever...
Representatives Rankin and Teague propose cutting benefits in half, even though the cost of living and of learning has increased precipitously since the days of the old G.I. Bill. This would severely limit the number of veterans who could take advantage of government-financed education, a limitation that was foreign to the old law. What reason is there for discriminating against Korea veterans who have sacrificed and endured just as much as those who were fighting five years ago? Clearly, there is none. Congress, then, has a moral and a practical obligation to extend full benefits to these new veterans...