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Mississippi was practically bankrupt when Theodore Bilbo left the Governor's mansion in 1932 and so was he. Last year he could not raise $500 to settle a claim against his $75,000 "dream home" at Poplarville, where he grows pecans. A cousin took the place over and Democrat Bilbo was delighted to get a $6,000-a-year job in Washington clipping newspapers for AAA in an office across the hall from the men's toilet (TIME, July 3, 1933). It looked as if the runty, pistol-scarred backwoodsman was politically through. But when he heard that...
...stenographer at the State Capitol sued Governor Russell for seduction and ex-Governor Bilbo was called as a witness. Bilbo is no prude, but he did not want to be drawn into a friend's girl trouble. He hid out in a backwoods farm until Governor Russell was acquitted...
...Then Bilbo was nabbed, haled into court on a contempt charge, sentenced to 30 days in the Oxford jail. At Oxford the chancellor of the University of Mississippi saw that Bilbo had three square meals a day. Released after ten days, Bilbo walked out of jail, climbed up on the back of a wagon, announced his second candidacy for the Governorship. During this campaign he took cognizance of State-wide gossip about his sex life. To a female audience The Man Bilbo cried: ''If these stories about The Man Bilbo are true, you've got to admit...
Stumpster Bilbo, who stops at no forensic device, is a bad man to have for a political foe. In 1928 he delivered Mississippi to Al Smith 5-to-1, "me a Baptist, a dry and a Ku Klux Klansman," largely by this stratagem: In a Memphis burlesque theatre he announced that during the 1927 flood Herbert Hoover got off a train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just...