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...coaches also received nicknames. Dave "Gandalf" Fish, who is "Zen Master" during the squash season. And Assistant Coach Steve "Bilbo" Gerstenfeld...
...happily subjects himself to a "continuum of nuttiness." He finds work at a tent factory ("I felt fine, a fine idiot doing a fine idiot job") and begins frequenting Bilbo's Bar, Gym & Grill, sparring occasionally, drinking a lot and hanging out with folks "who are anything but custodians of their chances in life." The first hint that all this aimlessness may be leading him somewhere comes when he moves in with Mary Constance Baker, an older woman, amateur actress and local celebrity, best known for her starring role in a play called A Woman Named Drown. In fact, this...
...Governor Theodore G. Bilbo urged the Mississippi legislature to ratify the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. Departing from his usual bilious bigotry, Bilbo requested "recognition to the intelligence, sweetness, character, ability and worth of the fair womanhood of Mississippi." But the legislators, reluctant to enfranchise black women also, voted...
...week, by a unanimous senate vote, Mississippi became the final state to ratify the 19th Amendment. The action came a mere 64 years after it became the law of the land. When State Senator Howard Dyer called the resolution up for a vote, he rivaled the condescending chivalry of Bilbo. The measure, drawled Dyer, was drafted by "some lady legislators who take great pride in the fact that they are authors...
This new populism is not the demagogy of a Bilbo or a Vardaman who used the black man as well as Wall Street as their whipping boys. Vardaman, often spoken of as the "Negro-cussin' Vardaman" and the "Great White Chief," dressed himself completely in white--white suit, white shit, white tie, white hat and white shoes, symbolical of white supremacy, as well as set himself up as the champion of the farmer against predatory bankers and businessmen whom he saw as locusts devouring the farmer. Finch, however, won over 80 per cent of the black vote in his gubernatorial...