Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mississippi's arch-rhetorical Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo, whose shortest speech is a reasonable facsimile of a filibuster, got to work in earnest. His desk was piled deep with reference books (including one on Japan) ; he was prepared to "talk until Christmas...
Chunky Senator Bilbo and the Southern bloc, who did not have enough Senate votes to beat the bill outlawing poll taxes, intended to talk it to death instead. Senators yawned, read newspapers, shuffled papers, wandered off the floor...
Unpatriotic is the mildest adjective possible for the pro-poll-tax Senators' use of the cherished right to filibuster. The tactics that made filmland's Senator Jimmie Stewart a hero in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" put real-life Senator Bilbo and his fourteen-odd accomplices in far more villainous roles. As vital Axis propaganda material they hold the center of the world stage. It is up to the American people to hiss them...
...meantime, the undeniable injustice of the taxes which discriminate to keep millions from voting goes on serving as fuel for the already overheated elements of discontent and Axis propaganda fire. Bilbo, Senator from Mississippi, where less than ten per cent of the citizens vote, was elected on a platform dedicated to ". . . raising more hell than Huey Long." He is keeping his word--and the fire he is raising has all America in a hot spot. "The Man," as the Senator fondly refers to himself, typifies the pro-poll tax bloc. Saturday, their filibuster technique led them into hiding from...
Small, smoldering, one-gallused Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, whose noteworthiest previous legislative contribution had been a bill to send unemployed Negroes back to Africa, startled the Senate by offering a resolution to end the unwritten rule that "female attaches of Senatorial staffs" (i.e., Senators' secretaries and clerks) be not allowed on the floor. Statesman Bilbo, whose Colleague Mrs. Caraway already has the privilege herself by virtue of her Senatorial office, hinted as delicately as he could that present conditions cast doubt on senatorial "justice and chivalry...