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...Recently Senator Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo of Mississippi asserted that Wendell Willkie's father had once lived in Columbus, Miss, under an assumed name: "John Stover." Last week indignant Willkie Democrats of Mississippi offered to give $1,000 to the Red Cross if anyone could prove it. At Columbus, 80-year-old Historian E. R. Hopkins cracked: "Senator Bilbo says a lot of things besides his prayers...
...Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo of Mississippi, a chunky fighting cock who campaigns in a red necktie tastefully embellished with a diamond horseshoe stickpin, is probably the most indestructible man in U. S. politics. For one thing, he has been in jail (in 1923, for refusing to testify at the trial for seduction of his hand-picked successor as Governor). In 1932, when he finished his second gubernatorial term, which had been enlivened by an episode in the Governor's office involving a blonde and a pistol shot, he and Mississippi were both practically bankrupt. Shelved in Washington...
Democratic Senatorial nomination (i.e., election), embattled Theodore Bilbo returned from Washington a fortnight ago to face his many enemies. For two weeks, he tramped the State in his red necktie and howled. When the votes were counted last week. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, still indestructible at 62, was headed back to Washington for six more years...
Thus Mr. Hatch's foes included Virginia's Glass & Byrd, bosses of The Old Dominion's tightly controlled courthouse crowd; Mississippi's Bilbo & Harrison, Alabama's Bankhead & Hill; Arkansas's Caraway & Miller, South Carolina's Byrnes & Smith, Nevada's Pittman, Oklahoma's Lee & Thomas-all of them members of powerful State organizations, and therefore mighty fighters for the status...
...Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, after 23 years of marriage; by Anna Margaret Munch Nye; in a five-minute court proceeding; in Fargo, N. D. He is the second member of the present Senate to be divorced while in office. The first: Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo of Mississippi...