Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans also proposed to solve the housing problem, so bungled by the Truman Administration that the solution must be started all over again. Other domestic matters, such as the seating of Mississippi's Senator-elect Theodore Bilbo (see below), will get their early attention. Such important questions as integration of the armed services and universal military training will be postponed until the GOPriority legislation is well on its way to becoming...
...evidence presented to this committee clearly indicates that Senator Bilbo improperly used his high office as United States Senator for his personal gain in his dealings with war contractors...
With this gloved haymaker, the Senate's War Investigating Committee this week summed up its findings against Mississippi's wily, ailing Theodore Gilmore Bilbo...
Since some Democratic Senators are almost certain to back Bilbo, right or wrong, the question of how to unseat The Man will devolve on the Senate's 51 Republicans. Their problem: whether to refuse Bilbo a seat on charges that his election was "irregular" (which would take only a majority vote), or seat and then attempt to oust him on charges of "moral turpitude" (which would require a two-thirds vote...
Thus, three weeks before he was to "have supplanted Governor Ellis Arnall in office, the controversial career of Georgia's "Wild Man from Sugar Creek" came to its end. No contemporary politicians except Louisiana's Huey Long and Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo had appealed so successfully to ignorance and bigotry. Gene Talmadge had been vehemently for keeping "the nigger" in his place. He had opposed high wages and labor unions, and had taken a dim view of education for the masses...