Word: bilbo
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After that, it was Bilbo's turn. Before the hearing, a Mississippi doctor had told committee investigators that the Senator has cancer of the mouth. Wasted, and minus his lower plate. Bilbo sat in the wit ness chair from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. While his voice clogged and his shoulders sagged, he spat at his inquisitors like a treed cougar...
...Said Bilbo of the $3,000 he had borrowed from Abe Shushan to make a divorce settlement with his wife: "I still owe $2,250 on this alimony nightmare." The swmiming-pool bill and the Morrissey loan, he vowed he would...
After he had denied or explained everything, Senator Bilbo asked the committee if it had any further questions. Icy-voiced Senator Ferguson had one: Did the witness know that it was against the law for political candidates to accept campaign contributions from Government contractors...
...Bilbo, who up to that moment had -"Living in mud." maintained that the committee had no legal goods on him, wilted noticeably and croaked that nothing had come out of the Government's purse. "It all came out of the Government," roared Ferguson...
Although the hearing was not officially closed, the subcommittee's lawyers were already at work on a strong anti-Bilbo report to the Senate. Its main point: that Bilbo had "acted improperly" in accepting gratuities from war contractors...