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Scrambling hurriedly to clear its decks for world charter discussion, the Senate was stopped in its tracks last week by an ancient mutineer: the filibustering Southerner. Mississippi's jug-eared, sawed-off Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo held the floor. His target: the Fair Employment Practices Commission. His weapons: racial and religious hatreds...
...most of three days and a night blustering Bilbo panted and ranted. Cried...
...Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, who has been "dabbling in real estate" since she became the ex-wife of Mississippi's loud-mouthed senator, went to court for messing around with an old Southern accentuation. Seeking to evict a tenant of her Jackson, Miss, duplex, she said: "No damyankee is going to ruin . .. my house." Said the judge, dismissing the indignant tenant's charge of disorderly conduct: according to Southern usage, Mrs. Bilbo was "not cursing...
...Senate floor, the issue of religion, which has a way of backfiring, was touched only lightly. But new attacks on Williams as a leftist with no special qualifications for the job came from Mississippi's Theodore G. ("The Man") Bilbo, from Ohio's Taft, from South Dakota's Bushfield, many another...
...alarmed. Huey Long, Bilbo and Boss Crump managed without grand opera; and grand opera north of the Mason & Dixon Line manages without Hague, Pendergast and Curley...