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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Bilbo seems to be assured of reelection next November because a majority of his constituents continue to believe in the "master race" theory. . . . The "Big Four" foreign ministers find little to agree about except the excellence of French champagne. . . . There is danger of war in Palestine. . Hungary is desperately hungry and gripped by a destructive inflation. . . . China remains a house divided. "Operation Crossroads" is . . . the crowning achievement of centuries of scientific research-a way to end civilization quickly but painfully. Dr. Einstein believes in God . . . and considers Him impotent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...Bilbo & Friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...SAKE OF ... POSTERITY, WHICH IS BILBO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 15, 1946 | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...second was Theodore C. ("The Man") Bilbo, inciting fellow Mississippians to "take care of" any Negroes who might want to vote in his state's primaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES & PRINCIPALS: Cotton Curtain | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...country who had always opposed him would vote for him this time. They thought him a knave but they knew he would filibuster to death any Congressional threat to "white man's supremacy" such as FEPC (the Fair Employment Practice Committee). Nothing short of a miracle would keep Bilbo from renomination, election, six more noisy years in the nation's capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Prince of the Peckerwoods | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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