Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Southerners . . . [are not] in the same category as those blind followers of the doctrine of white supremacy who persist in placing men like Theodore Bilbo and the late Gene Talmadge in positions of honor, whence they may spread their evil appeals to the ignorant...
...telephones and two-pants suits, and even hired college athletes from Pittsburgh. But there was still a South the rest of the U.S. could not quite understand. That South loved buffoons, corny oratory and the smell of violence; its prophets were demagogues like "Tom Tom" Heflin, Huey Long, Senator Bilbo and the late governor-elect of Georgia, turkey-necked "Old Gene" Talmadge. Last week it got a new one-at least temporarily. Old Gene's heavy-lidded, 33-year-old son Herman (pronounced Hummon) claimed that he was now the governor of Georgia...
Taft of Ohio is the biggest political figure in Washington, boss of probably the most efficiently organized G.O.P. Senate the nation has ever seen. It had disposed of Mississippi's Theodore G. Bilbo in the opening days (TIME, Jan. 13). Before the 80th opened, all Senate committee assignments had been made-largely by Taft...
Possibly he has "a malignant growth" in one cheek, Barkley continued to explain. At any rate, Mr. Bilbo must return to Mississippi. He might be there as long as two months. "I ask unanimous consent that his credentials lie on the table without prejudice and without action until such time as Mr. Bilbo may return...
Instantly Taft was on his feet to agree. The situation was "composed." Bilbo shuffled down the corridors. Behind him the Senate, suddenly in jovial humor, began swearing in the rest of its new members. Up to the desk Taft escorted his colleague, John Bricker, who blushed like a June bride...