Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vicksburg Contractor Michael T. Morrissey had testified that he happened to be passing Bilbo's "Dream House No. I" -a 27-room brick mansion near Poplarville, Miss.-one day. He found the Senator trying to build a lake with a mule, a one-armed Negro and two boys. Understandably touched, Morrissey fetched his earth-moving machinery, dug the lake, and by a "bookkeeper's error" charged the $3,672.91 cost to the Keesler Army Air Field, which he was then helping construct. He explained airily his loans of $6,000 and his gift of a Cadillac to Bilbo...
John R. Junkin, a sand & gravel dealer from Natchez, told the committee he had poured the concrete for the Dream House swimming pool, but had marked the $1,194.70 bill paid before he mailed it. Contractor M. T. Reed had contributed $3,500 to the Juniper Grove Baptist parsonage Bilbo was struggling to build, and had given the money to Bilbo. Contractor F. T. Newton had no idea what Bilbo had done with the $25,000 he had given him to back the unsuccessful 1942 senatorial campaign of handsome, languorous Mississippian Wall Doxey, now the Senate sergeant at arms...
...Terrible Eye. The committee's star witness was ailing Edward P. Terry, an erstwhile Bilbo secretary. Despite the terrible eye that Bilbo fixed on him from across the crowded Senate caucus room, Witness Terry began to squeal willingly...
...said, New Orleans' notorious Abraham L. (Abe) Shushan, ex-convict and onetime Huey Long henchman, agreed to write off a $3,000 loan to Bilbo in return for an assist on an $80,000 income-tax suit. In 1941, Terry recalled, Bilbo had accepted $1,500 to get an aged Natchez drug addict a special morphine prescription from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics...
...committee listened attentively, while Bilbo mangled a cigar. Then Michigan's Homer Ferguson, a relentless inquisitor, switched his approach. He asked Terry what he had done with the $15,000 given him by New York radical Simon Liberman for use against Bilbo in Mississippi's Democratic primary last July. Abruptly, Terry refused to answer and the committee cited him for contempt...