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Rankin was anti-Semitic.

William L. Strickland, professor of political science at University of Massachusetts Amherst says " Rankin was an equal opportunity bigot ", he once called the Jewish newspaper columnist Walter Winchell ' the little kike '.

" The moment was referenced in the 1947 Academy Award winning film, Gentleman's Agreement, which focuses on the topic of antisemitism.