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...eight months, Mississippi's gnome-like Theodore Bilbo had been waiting for the day he would descend on Washington and reclaim his seat in the U.S. Senate. Part of the time he spent dawdling around his echoing 27-room Dream House at Poplarville, Miss. Part of his exile was spent in New Orleans "getting my mouth reamed out." He had cancer of the mouth and he underwent a series of delicate operations...
During 40 years in public life Theodore Bilbo had publicly admitted sins which would have shattered a dozen ordinary political careers. He had bragged of being a lecher, and of taking a bribe. He had double-crossed his political allies. When he ended his second term as governor in 1932, Mississippi had all but sunk into bankruptcy. His cries for "white supremacy" had affronted millions. But few demagogues had capitalized so skillfully on fear, prejudice and the human need for drama. The poor Mississippians whom he called "peckerwoods" elected him again & again...
...death, he received the honors due a man of talent and position. Mississippi sent a detachment of 50 national guardsmen to keep a watch as Bilbo, resplendent in the red tie and diamond stickpin which had been his campaign badge, lay in state at the Dream House. The U.S. Senate will pay for his funeral. Mississippi's Governor Fielding Wright, Senator James 0. Eastland, five Congressmen, scores of state officials, crowded into the Juniper Grove Baptist Church (built with Bilbo's donations) to attend the services. Five thousand humbler folk stood outside in the churchyard and listened...
...Bogalusa, La., who had completed his theological training at Bilbo's expense, preached the sermon. He took his text from Second Timothy, fourth chapter, 7th and 8th verses: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith...
...baiter Bilbo had the first of his operations at New Orleans' Jewish Touro Infirmary...