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...record of incumbent Senator James 0. Eastland. Then he startled-and delighted-rednecks and townsfolk alike by suddenly waving the old, tattered banner of white supremacy. The crowd whooped and clapped with electric excitement when Gartin said: "The greatest champion of white supremacy in our generation was Theodore G. Bilbo." He charged that "the great cause of white supremacy suffered a stunning defeat . . ." when Bilbo's right to sit in the U.S. Senate was challenged before his death in 1947. Gartin, who had never hinted that he planned such a campaign, tongue-lashed Eastland for failing to stand...
...aptitudes for their work. It is with chagrin that I confess a growing conviction that Senator McCarthy-a damned-Yankee, and a Roman Catholic one at that-just about has it made as the Exalted Kleagle and Imperial Wizard of all the Demagogues. The shades of Heflin and Bilbo-aye, even that of the superb Huey Long, must stand in their limbos with reverent awe at the spectacle of the meretricious antics of McCarthy...
...recent decades the South has given the U.S. Senate more than its share of sub-minor statesmen of the Heflin-Bilbo stamp. But the South has competition. Last week the confirmation of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the U.S. was being blocked by one man, the Bilbo of the North: North Dakota's Senator William Langer. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Langer, after weeks of delay, insisted on considering the charges in a handful of letters opposing Warren's appointment. Some of the letters are obviously from cranks, none of them contains any evidence to support...
...Harris' outburst . . . places him in a class with Bilbo and Rankin, names the South nor any section can be proud...
...opinion that Einstein will assume a place among the ten greatest men of this century. Where McCarthy's name will be if it is remembered we aren't certain, but very likely in the same obscure corner of history occupied by the late Theodore Bilbo...