Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech, Sullens announced: "There will be a buzzard swarming at Poindexter Park tonight. If you have buzzard appetite, go out and enjoy yourself. But please go home to do your puking. It costs money to clean public parks. . .." Another time, when Mississippi's Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo visited Europe after being elected a second term, Sullens wrote: "When Bilbo reached Denmark, the band played 'God Save the Queen...
...77th Congress; in no other country were the overwhelming chores of global war thrown on such a heterogeneous group of men & women. Some future Reveille in Washington will record the solemn manner in which Franklin Roosevelt asked for a declaration of war, the triumphant grin on Poll-Taxer Theodore Bilbo's face, the specter of Prohibition unearthed by Josh Lee, the invective poured out by Montana's Burton Wheeler, the ringing periods of Visitor Winston Churchill's oration in the House Chamber, the turbulent, sweaty, exhausting, endless, day-by-day job of 531 men & women dealing with...
...years preceding the election. The poll tax is a $2 flat rate, but since municipal poll taxes may be added to the basic rate, the maximum rate is $6. Mississippi's 1940 population: 2,183,796 persons. In 1940 only 175,824 Mississippians voted. Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo's total vote in 1940: 143,341. He was elected by about one-fifteenth of the State's population, presumably including Reader Levings...
...dogs in the Senate now were acid-tongued, bombastic Tom Connally of Texas, floor manager of the poll-tax State foray; Mississippi's Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, who once proposed deportation of Negroes to Liberia; Tennessee's bumbling Kenneth McKellar, still chafing from his arrest for dodging Senate attendance (TIME, Nov. 23); and owlish Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming, only Democratic Senator from a non-poll-tax State to take the floor against constitutionality of the bill. O'Mahoney said he had no love for poll taxes, but their abolition...
...quorum finally rounded up (after three hours and 40 minutes), The Man Bilbo began speaking again. The Senator, never bothered by the doubts and inhibitions that sometimes assail more sensitive men, blurted happily...