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...Government would pay $120 a month to certain disabled veterans whose disabilities are in no way connected with military service. This bill, which may some day cost the taxpayer $400 million a year, was contrived by the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, of which Mississippi's John Rankin, a brazen spoilsman, is chairman...
Congress could have sheltered behind the President and quietly let the bill die. Instead, John Rankin's committee unanimously recommended that the bill be repassed. Rasped the old demagogue: "I am unalterably opposed ... to balancing the budget on the veterans...
Mississippi's waspish John Rankin waggled his white mane with satisfaction. Said he to the House of Representatives last week: "This regulation is ... the first thing that has brought justice in freight rates to the people of the South and West in the last 50 years." Editorialized the Atlanta Journal: "It has been a long and valiant fight [which] has resulted in a triumph for justice and fair play...
...Voted down, 222-117, a proposal for a $5,000,000 Veterans Hospital for Negroes at Booker T. Washington's birthplace, Franklin County, Va. Support for it was led by Dixiecrat John Rankin, who said piously that it would provide better treatment for Negroes. Opposition was led by the House's only Negro members, Democrats William L. Dawson of Illinois and Adam Clayton Powell of New York, who objected to it as segregation...
...charge of NPA's iron and steel division, and was told that the four applications must have been "lost." WOC Cole is on leave from Bethlehem Steel, where his only locomotive client had been G.M., and Cole's main assistant since March is a WOC named Henry Rankin, on leave from Republic Steel, which also does a heavy steel business with...