Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo got on the mark for another senatorial filibuster (30 days if necessary), visualized himself as the savior of $250 million in public funds by killing a freight-rate bill. A succeeding vision: a bigger & better Capitol to be built with the $250 million. He was "ashamed," he said, of the present "old, dilapidated, dirty Capitol," insisted that Cuba's was better and that the county courthouse back home in Mississippi had Washington's beat for comfort and convenience...
Senator Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo, lagging some five years behind Pittsburgh Industrialist Samuel Harden Church, proposed a million-dollar reward for the capture of Hitler, whose death he doubted. Church and some other well-heeled Pittsburghers had put up their own money; Bilbo had taxpayers' money in mind...
Mississippi's Senator Bilbo was off again. He had received many letters protesting his intemperate filibuster against the Fair Employment Practices Committee (TIME, July 9). Now he sat down to answer his mail...
...South, there were many who had stopped and thought. Said the New Orleans Item: "Truly there is no worse influence in high life than Senator Bilbo. ... He is a disgrace to Mississippi . . . and to the nation...
...niggers and Jews of New York are working hand in hand. . . . This is a damnable, Communist, poisonous piece of legislation." When "The Man" Bilbo finally tired, he was spelled by Mississippi's junior Senator, James Oliver Eastland, who can "coon-shout" with the best of them. He took another tack: "We are dealing with an inferior race...