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...from the false leadership of those who have been styled 'Southern liberals'-they are turning from those who have preached the tolerance of intolerance, tolerance of segregation, tolerance of murderous Jim Crow. They are learning that such men are only slightly to the left of Hitler and Rankin...
...some encouragement. Old Bill Green predicted: "The Republicans certainly won't get much labor support." From Chicago came word that Jake Arvey, who had been thumping for Ike Eisenhower, admitted that Harry Truman "has picked up a lot." The President also got some advice. Mississippi's John Rankin came out of the President's office and suggested that the secessionist Dixiecrats might stay hitched if the Democratic platform went no further on civil rights than the generalizations of the 1944 plank -which proclaimed that "racial and religious minorities have the right to live, develop and vote equally...
...floor at last, the House did its best to oblige. An ill-assorted alliance of the far left and far right leaped in with knives flourishing. New York's Communist-line Vito Marcantonio and left-wing Leo Isacson joined forces with Mississippi's ranting John E. Rankin and Michigan's Paul Shafer...
...Washington, Cissie Patterson's Times-Herald, little cousin of the Trib, picked up the story. When Mississippi's John Rankin read it, he brayed to the House that "if it is true, it certainly is an outrage and . . . Congress should investigate it, and should...
...Judiciary subcommittee voted out an anti-lynching bill. Heaping the coals higher, a delegation of Negro leaders waited on Speaker of the House Joe Martin, presented him with a petition bearing more than a million signatures which demanded the immediate ejection from Congress of Mississippi's rabid John Rankin...