Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What do you think the Army does-make broadminded zealots out of small-town Bilbo fans? Or educators for democracy out of kids brought up under Tammany's protective wings? . . . Prejudiced? Hell, yes, they're prejudiced. They learned it at home...
Cheers for North Carolina's Governor Cherry. But my guess is that you have been something less than fair with Governor Caldwell of Florida in similar circumstances. You make him out a regular Bilbo, mouthing nonsense on lynchings and the race question. After all, Florida isn't that much worse than North Carolina...
Meanwhile the big guns of the Southern delegation had been gathering material for the battle to come. Mississippi's roundheaded Senator James Eastland swore darkly to talk "two years if necessary." His fellow Mississippian, Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo was less rash. He would speak twice-"for 30 days each time...
Mississippi's Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, still champion of white supremacy at 68, had an important communiqué for the waiting world. He smoothed his bright red necktie, adjusted the diamond horseshoe stickpin that he bought for $92.50 at a 1916 auction. Then he announced...
Strange Fruit ran display ads quoting Senator Bilbo: "It should disgust you in stead of entertain you. Personally I would be ashamed to attend such a performance...