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Leon Siegel (D) defeated Charles Rankin, Leo Wolkow (D) defeated Court Worthington, Sid Shapiro (D) defeated Sam Ordway, Tom Sobol (D) defeated Bill Williamson, and Mike Licciardello (D) won by default. Nick Krauth (W) defeated Fred Paulson, and John Trumbell (W) won by default...
...three hours one morning, Mississippi's rabid John Rankin, South Carolina's Burnet Maybank and half a dozen other cotton legislators abused, battered and threatened Di Salle. With a decisiveness and political courage seldom shown in Washington these days, Di Salle stuck to one answer: "If there is no ceiling price on raw cotton, the entire stabilization program is doomed...
...extremely odd and unpalatable aspects of Benjamin Freedman's charges began to seep out in testimony. The letter of indictment which he sent the Senate had been drafted with the help of Jew-baiting Gerald L. K. Smith in the offices of Mississippi's vitriolic Representative John Rankin. Freedman testified that he had been visited by Don Surine (an employee of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy) and Edward K. Nellor (an employee of Radio Commentator Fulton Lewis Jr.), who came bearing a letter of introduction from Rabble-Rouser Smith...
...posture on this island was at its tragic low. Then the senior U.S. officials in residence were a charge d'affaires and Colonel David Barrett, a famous "old China hand" who headed a staff of six military attaches including himself. Since then an American Minister, Karl Rankin, has taken over, a ruddy and genial man of stature and intelligence. In the seven weeks since he arrived, he has galvanized the listless diplomatic staff and earned the respect of Nationalist officialdom. Rear Admiral Harry Jarrett heads an enlarged staff of attach...
...Zandt supported the bill "not for political reasons but for the purpose of supporting the veterans of the country who carried the Stars & Stripes on the many frontiers of battle, not only in the Spanish-American War but in World War I and World War II." Said Rankin piously: "I want to say that this is the first time I ever heard politics mentioned...