Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo was as full of answers as a Quiz Kid. On Mutual's Meet the Press program last week, the Senator from Mississippi chattered like an angry chipmunk, made one admission he might regret in a cooler moment...
...trail of lynch law led from the mob murder of four Negroes on a lonely Georgia roadside (TIME, Aug. 5) to a Mississippi bayou deep in the land of Bilbo. There it was marked by the battered corpse of a Negro tenant farmer floating in the scum...
...political sense and had stayed out of the campaign in Mississippi, Bilbo would have been defeated...
...Buttinsky Damyankees" (TiME, July 15) That is just what re-elected Senator Bilbo to another term in the Senate. He may be all that you say he is or say is not, but it is none of the business of ... damnedyankees...
Emboldened by U.S. liberation of the Philippines, the Washington correspondent of the Honolulu Advertiser last week bearded Mississippi's Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, asked cautiously if he favored statehood for Hawaii. Replied "The Man" with portentous solemnity: "It will be a sad day when the Philippines are free...