Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other Fields. During its bumpy, argumentative session the Senate had stopped Mississippi's bigoted Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo from taking his seat in the Senate, had finally confirmed David Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Taft shared credit for the first job and blame for the long delay in the Lilienthal case. Under the whip of Arthur Vandenberg, the 80th had backed the "bipartisan" foreign policy. Whether that backing would continue would depend somewhat on President Truman, somewhat on domestic politics. There were signs that the honeymoon was going stale...
...gravy train made another Mississippi whistle stop. Senator Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo finally came across with the $100,000 church and parsonage he had been promising constituents ever since 1928. About 10,000 of them, flivvered down to Juniper Grove to get in on the 3,000-lb. beef barbecue. The Man had offered to let the whole 80th Congress come along in a body, but everybody seemed to have previous engagements. The Rev. Gerald L K. Smith showed up, though, to say that Bilbo was "the most persecuted man in the world." The Man himself wasn...
Southern Democrats also rode the wind: McKellar's colleague from Tennessee, Tom Stewart, a stooge of Memphis' Boss Crump; Louisiana's John Overton, who had defended Theodore Bilbo six weeks ago; Texas' rambunctious Pappy O'Daniel...
Chapel Hill, N.C. CHARLES G. BRITT 'f| TIME wishes that such Southerners as Readers Parmley, Duncan and Britt were in the majority. TIME shares their hope and belief that in the South, as in the rest of the U.S., Dr. Carver will be remembered long after Bilbo and Talmadge...
...piping-hot revelations from his Committee on Un-American Activities. Michigan's Albert J. Engel disagreed with his Republican colleague, Harold Knutson, on a straight 20% slash in income taxes, complaining "that doesn't help the little fellow much." Mississippi's John Rankin, a junior Bilbo, dramatically unrolled a yards-long petition bearing thousands of signatures, inviting a witch hunt for subversives in the movie industry. That would be a sure-fire way to stay in the headlines...