Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime (1922) President of the New York Rotary Club, and active philanthropist who likes to dress up as "Father Knickerbocker" each year for the outing of the Broadway Association, booster organization. Associated with Founder Vandever on a national advisory committee are such varied figures as the Hon. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, Governor of Mississippi; General Robert Lee Bullard, U. S. A. retired; James William Crabtree, Secretary of the National Education Association. Honorary Chairman of the Founders Committee is Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, Second Lady of the Land. From its donors the Lincoln Fund asks no capital gifts. It is stipulated that...
...most inexcusable, unreasonable, contemptible, diabolical, damnable and pusillanimous falsehood ever conceived in the twisted, corrupted, diseased, poisoned, fiendish mind of a black-hearted villain and assassin" was last week isolated and thus described by Mississippi's Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo in a formal address to the State Legislature. Governor Bilbo had been charged with attempting to peddle a Mississippi bond issue to a Nashville, Tenn. bond house, at a loss to his State of $85,000 and contrary to law. In a 5,000-word message he denied the charge. The same message asked each legislator to donate...
...owner, told her to "come and get Charlie." She came. She found Charlie. He had a Winchester rifle and a pistol; she had a shotgun. "Put those down, Charlie," she said. He put them down, surrendered, was turned over to National Guardsmen, called out by Mississippi's Governor Bilbo...
...after its own fashion. In Mississippi, Blacks outnumber Whites by almost nine to eight. Where there are nine Black Men to eight White Women, the People is apt to find excuse for making an occasional example. Meanwhile the State of Mississippi took no proceedings against its People. Governor Bilbo said he had neither time nor money to investigate 2,000 persons. A coroner's jury, looking into the death of Negro Shepherd, decided that he had died from "causes unknown...
...Smith, was not far from New Orleans, golfing and fishing at Biloxi, Miss. But he did not "take in" the conference. Maryland's Ritchie was over in Florida, but he, too, kept his vacation inviolate. Other notable absentees from the New Orleans meeting were Mississippi's Bilbo, who telegraphed that he was too busy even to fly down from Jackson for a day; and Massachusetts' Fuller, who, in the course of winding up his administration, punctuated the week by saying: "The greatest danger that confronts us . . . is the result of avarice on the part...