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...esteem" on the eve of Democratic Senator Glass's 78th birthday (see p. 47). Members felicitated dressy old James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois on his narrow escape from death from pneumonia in Moscow last autumn. There were even a good-natured few willing to listen to "The Man" Bilbo expatiate on his "Dream House" in Mississippi. With the introduction of just one bill, the Pittman Neutrality measure, the Senate decorously ended its first session. That Evening the President appeared promptly behind the lectern of the Speaker's rostrum. Police and Secret Servants had checked " double-checked invitations...
Mississippi's loud, stubby Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo invited the entire State to a housewarming at his new 27-room "Dream House" at Poplarville. Curious, hungry Mississippians wolfed the Senator's sardines, crackers and grapejuice, bugged their eyes at five gaudy bathrooms including an orchid-&-black...
...impassioned radio address last week Share-Our-Wealth Preacher Smith aired his own suspicions as to who was responsible for the Kingfish's murder, laid the blame on New Orleans newspaper publishers and Senator Theodore Gilmore Bilbo of Mississippi, whom he darkly accused of journeying to New Orleans week before with $25,000 in his pocket. In his best form, "The Man" Bilbo snapped back: "The Reverend ... is a contemptible, dirty, vicious, pusillanimous, with-malice-aforethought, damnable, self-made liar...
After 30 years of marriage Mississippi's Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo left his second wife in 1933. Last summer, after suing her husband for separate maintenance, Mrs. Bilbo obtained a relief job. Last week she made news by entering her first political campaign...
Down from Washington had gone Senator Bilbo to stump for Candidate Hugh White in a run-off primary for Mississippi's Democratic nomination for Governor, equivalent to election. In support of Candidate Paul Johnson, Mrs. Bilbo last week issued the following signed statement...