Word: bilbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had another report, signed by four Republican members of the War Investigating Committee, which charged that Bilbo had accepted gratuities possibly amounting to as much as $88,000 from Mississippi contractors who obtained Government war work; that he had collected funds from war contractors for the Juniper Grove Baptist Church. The Senators also noted the charge that he had accepted $1,500 to help a drug addict get a narcotics permit...
Said Republicans: Bilbo has violated the Constitution, the Hatch Act, the Criminal Code...
...filled. Sightseers sat on the steps, stood jammed along the back and milled around the corridors outside, trying to get in. On the floor below, Senators began to arrive, pumping each other's hands, looking for their desks and seats for their friends. At 18 minutes to noon, Bilbo stumped in-reddish brown suit, sagging paunch, sunken cheeks, hair slicked down on his round skull...
Overton growled: "The Senator from Ohio [Taft] is not yet the whole Senate, no matter what he may think about it." South Carolina's Burnet Maybank shouted hoarsely: "After all, Mississippi is a sovereign state." After all, Bilbo was Mississippi's choice. Bilbo slouched at his old desk, clutching his cigar...
Ellender Yields. Hour after hour, next day, the filibuster rolled on. Ellender and New Mexico's Carl Hatch, author of the act under which Bilbo stood accused, excoriated the Republicans. Taft and Ferguson waited. They had served notice that the Senate would be held in session Saturday night, Sunday, continuously thereafter until the filibuster collapsed...