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Trumanites in Dixie massed to boost RFC loans in Mississippi
A Senate hearings’ opening in ACRSON Mississippi disclosed pro Truman Democrats sought to strengthen party support by influencing RFC loan decisions. Witnesses described 1948 plan to rebuild the Dixiecrat faction via federal funds, with letters citing a $4.5 million RFC loan proposal and calls to treat the Mississippi Farm Bureau as a political instrument.
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Acrson
Miss
U. S. Senate
Mississippi
Senate Expenditures
Forrest Jackson
Jackson
RFC
President Truman
Francis Flanagan
Clarence Hood
Washington
Hood
James Eastland
John Stennis
FROBE
Clyde Hoey
DWN. Co
John McClellan
Dyare
Karl Mundt
Mississippi Chemical Corp
Mississippi Farm Bureau
REA
Columbia
Flanagan
Democratic Committee
Democratic Party