Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the long-suffering citizen's cup ran over. Mississippi's squat, jug-eared Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, 66, became "mayor" of the city. Whereas four of his skittish seniors declined the Chairmanship of the Senate District Committee, The Man accepted with enthusiasm. Hereafter, with the House's hard-working Jennings Randolph, Senator Bilbo will pass on the District's budget, and thus on its civic welfare...
Died. Paul Burney Johnson, 63, Governor of Mississippi; of a heart ailment; in Hattiesburg, Miss. A farmer's son, handsome, 6 ft. 3 in. Johnson rose from teacher, Circuit Court judge and Congressman to Governor in 1939-with the support of Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. He was famed in Mississippi's bizarre politics as the choice of the "runt-pig" people, he tried to stem lynchings, left the state a surplus approaching...
...Braced itself for another session of filibustering by Mississippi's bantam, bombastic Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, as both House and Senate Judiciary Committees approved another anti-poll-tax bill. "The Man" assured the Senate that there would be "free and unlimited coinage of words...
...prestige. An honor graduate of Yale's Law School (1913), Speaker of Mississippi's House at 23, ambitious Mike Conner was the best Governor of Mississippi in many a decade. When he took office in 1932, the Treasury had a $13,500,000 deficit inherited from the Bilbo administration, state bonds were selling at 70? on the dollar, state employes and schoolteachers were unpaid, state colleges were unaccredited...
...never be reported out of the Senate's Judiciary Committee. And the same Senate poll-taxers still stand ready to talk it to death as they did last year. The stellar role will probably fall to Mississippi's bantam, big-eared, bombast-loving Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. Last week he promised to filibuster the bill for 18 months...