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...merely so-called "extension of remarks" by lawmakers seized with a second thought, a desire to fool some of the voters, or a fit of after-hours loquacity. The system has many faults, but at least it spared Congressmen from listening to Mississippi's ranting Dixie Demagogue John Rankin, who filled 13 columns of the Congressional Record one day this month with a debased attack on FEPC. Sample quote...
...Dixiecrats needed to stop FEPC in its tracks. But just to be sure that the painful subject wouldn't be called up that day, anti-FEPC forces made six demands for quorums, each of which took up half an hour, and Mississippi's John Rankin even rose to complain that the House clocks did not agree with each other. Republican leaders made no move to come to the rescue. Waddling out of a meeting of the Rules Committee next day, Ohio's portly Republican Clarence Brown cheerfully admitted that he had voted with committee Dixiecrats to keep...
Also beyond the budget are uncounted hundreds of other expenditure bills-everything from a crossroads postoffice on up. Biggest of the independent bills is the veterans' pension plan which Mississippi's John Rankin rammed through the House; the VA estimates it would cost an average of $1.4 billion a year...
...that mean the denial of patronage to Dixiecrats? Let's wait, the President said, and see how the thing works out. In one respect it had worked already; Truman had passed up crusty old John Rankin's man for postmaster in Columbus, Miss. There was nothing to be gained by buttering up Rabble-rouser Rankin...
...vote margin on the eve of war in 1941 had its members been thrown into such an irresponsible panic. In the showdown, the economy-shouting Republicans had looked even worse than the Democrats. Republicans had followed their leaders, Joseph Martin and Charles Halleck, in voting 2 to 1 for Rankin's raid on the Treasury. Democrats, whose leaders stood fast against the bill, voted 3 to 2 to stop...