Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here's hoping that all your future articles on the race question will be written by the man who wrote "Morale." I am sure he will realize that the truth lies somewhere between the "red-eyed denunciation" of the Negro press and the ranting of Bilbo; that the deep-seated social forces involved cannot be quelled overnight; that the condition of the Negro in the South, though unhappy, is much improved, and steadily though slowly improving; that this improvement can best be accelerated by cooperation with the best elements among the Southern whites instead of by incrimination of Southern...
Backstage. In spite of professional performances by Tom Connally and his supporting company-which included such seasoned troupers as Mississippi's Bilbo, Alabama's Bankhead and Tennessee's McKellar (see cut)-none but the most gullible galleryite was taken in. Everybody else knew that a cynical Senate had quietly made an election-year deal, arranged everything backstage in advance. There would be 1) no filibuster, 2) no cloture, 3) no Marcantonio bill...
Orchid for Bilbo & "Ole Miss...
Sirs: Here's an orchid for Rankin, Bilbo, Governor Bailey and "Ole Miss" too. Just passed in review about two hours ago for His Excellency the Governor and his 140 (no kidding) Honorary Colonels...
...first time since the city was laid out, Washingtonians were united against the common foe. "Disunity!" screamed the D.C. Communist Party. The Southeast Council of Churches considered charges that Mayor Bilbo is "unpatriotic and un-Christian," solemnly resolved that he be removed. "Vicious," said the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, "un-American." The sober Washington Post editorialized: "Bilbo Runs Amok." The Scripps-Howard Daily News fumed: "This socially benighted man . . . throw...