RANKIN, John Elliott, a Representative from Mississippi; born near Bolanda, Itawamba County, Miss., March 29, 1882; attended the common and high schools; was graduated from the law department of the University of Mississippi at Oxford in 1910; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in West Point, Clay County, Miss.; moved to Tupelo, Miss., the following November and continued the practice of law; prosecuting attorney of Lee County 1911-1915; also engaged as a lecturer and newspaper writer; served in the United States Army during the First World War; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1932, 1936, and 1940; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1921-January 3, 1953); chairman, Committee on World War Veterans’ Legislation (Seventy-second through Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Veterans’ Affairs (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses); coauthor of bill to create the Tennessee Valley Authority; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1952; was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator in 1947; resumed the practice of law; also interested in farming and real estate; died in Tupelo, Miss., November 26, 1960; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, West Point, Miss.
This House committee, McCormack-Dickstein, was named after its chairman and vice chairman, John W. McCormack and Samuel Dickstein.
In 1947, studio executives told the Committee that wartime films like Mission to Moscow and Song of Russia could be considered pro-Soviet propaganda, but they suggested that the films were valuable in the context of the Allied war effort.
In the 1950s the studios produced a number of anti-communist and anti-Soviet propaganda films like John Wayne's Big Jim McLain, The Red Menace, The Red Danube, I Married a Communist, I Was a Communist for the FBI and Red Planet Mars.
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