Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politics. The G.O.P. leaders also found time to plan a campaign against Democratic Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, the Mississippi mountebank (see PEOPLE). They had decided to challenge Bilbo's right to his Senate seat on the grounds that he incited whites to bar Negroes from the Mississippi polls in the Democratic primary...
...most frequently heard comment from supporters as well as opponents of Bilbo was that if the Yankees had kept out of the election he could have been beaten. . . . Our Bilbos and Rankins are proper targets for magazines of national circulation. But honestly disturbed outsiders should re-examine the techniques of such 'meddling' with emphasis upon understanding and possibly, results...
Died. Thomas L. Bailey, 58, Bilbo-hating Mississippi politico, Governor of the State since 1944; after long illness; in Jackson, Miss...
Orchids to TIME for your splendid article on Kansas Prohibition [TIME, Sept. 9]. . . . Kansas dry laws are as big a farce as Mississippi's Bilbo. In Wichita one can purchase a fifth of Schenley's, Seagram's, or even Old Granddad for only...
Answering the roll call of last week's extraordinary caucus were such practiced pork-barrelers as Tennessee's cob-nosed Kenneth McKellar, Mississippi's Bilbo and Rankin, Louisiana's paunchy John Overton. Bilbo, still convalescing from inflammation of the mouth (see PEOPLE), apologized for his inability to orate. Overton, running two degrees of fever, left early. But others jumped up to accuse Harry Truman of defying the will of Congress...