Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eared little U.S. Senator filled the tank of his sleek, grey Cadillac and drove 1,000 miles to address the Legislature of his own State. Home to campaign-for 1946-was Mississippi's red-necktied Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, who boasts, at 66, that ladies still find him fascinating ("I don't expect to reach my prime until...
Before he had finished his long (1 hr., 18 min.) anti-Negro harangue, some of Mississippi's listening Senators, Representatives and assorted littlewigs had propped their feet on legislative desks, were deep in the pages of the Jackson Daily News. But Fustianeer Bilbo ranted on. Stepping gingerly as Agag through the bad eggs of his logic, he somehow managed to: 1) praise Franklin Roosevelt, 2) damn Eleanor Roosevelt, 3) boom Term IV, 4) denounce New Deal bureaucracy, 5) predict bloody postwar race riots, 6) deny that U.S. Negroes have any right to vote. Typical Bilboisms...
...Jackson, Miss., but they gave a stomachache to the good citizens of Washington, D.C. As chairman of the Senate District Committee, The Man is mayor of the nation's capital. For a quarter of a century, disfranchised residents of Washington have agitated for a vote. Now Mayor Bilbo explained why he is determined that they shall not have it: "Negroes already compose 30 to 40% of the population of the capital city. . . . The alleys would outvote the avenues...
...that because December cotton futures were quoted at $9 a bale under March prices, the Exchange was "offering price destruction instead of price insurance." The Senate braves were led by cotton-loving Senator James Oliver Eastland of Mississippi, 38, colleague of the pecan-growers' friend Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. "Cotton Jim" Eastland proposed that Congress investigate the Exchange because "certain big interests are rigging the market...
...apprehensive. This was The Man who had survived umpteen fragrant political scandals to campaign again in red necktie and diamond-horseshoe stickpin. After eight years as Governor of his state, The Man left Mississippi's educational efficiency rating in 47th place. Grateful Mississippians then sent Poll-taxer Bilbo to the Senate. There he showed his mettle by suggestions such as that all the nation's economic ills might be cured if U.S. Negroes were deported, en masse, to Africa...