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...years since V-E day the U.S. has never let its sympathy for Europe's 1,000,000 displaced persons interfere with its airtight immigration laws. At the first hint of a leak last summer, Mississippi's frog-voiced John Rankin had trumpeted the considered opinion of many another quota-conscious Congressman: "There are too many so-called refugees pouring into this country bringing with them communism, atheism, anarchy and infidelity." But last week a House Judiciary subcommittee gingerly got ready to hold hearings on a bill by Illinois' Congressman William G. Stratton, which would admit...
Smith went on to prophesy an "Inevitable" war with Russia, praise John Rankin as "a great man, a fine citizen, and a good Christian," and predict the eventual triumph of "Anglo-Saxon civilization...
...Crump. 4. John Rankin...
...abandon the policy of circulating petitions to arouse student sentiment, a method widely used during the fall with mediocre results, in favor of direct lobbying and testimony before legislative committees. Outstanding success of the petitions distributed throughout the University was a resolution condemning the tactics used by the Rankin Committee against Professor Harlow Shapley, which was signed by 1200 students and faculty members...
...Thomas promised mysterious but piping-hot revelations from his Committee on Un-American Activities. Michigan's Albert J. Engel disagreed with his Republican colleague, Harold Knutson, on a straight 20% slash in income taxes, complaining "that doesn't help the little fellow much." Mississippi's John Rankin, a junior Bilbo, dramatically unrolled a yards-long petition bearing thousands of signatures, inviting a witch hunt for subversives in the movie industry. That would be a sure-fire way to stay in the headlines...