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...where poverty is said to have driven "all the good niggers'' over into Alabama, last week fairly outdid itself in the matter of picking a U.S. Senator. In the Democratic run-off primary a sizable majority of that State's electorate preferred Theodore Gilmore Bilbo to all comers...
...Theodore Bilbo was born 56 years ago on a back-country farm in south Mississippi. One of eight children, he worked as a laundryman, mill hand and news butcher to pay his way through college. From his book learning he drew dividends by teaching mathematics and Latin for six years at Aaron Academy, Nicholson High School, in grade schools at Bayou Encent, Anner, Kiln and Wiggins. At this time he was licensed but not ordained as a Southern Baptist minister. And then he got into politics...
...soon became apparent to Theodore Bilbo that his camp-meeting, rabble-rousing rant had a definite appeal for rural "red necks." He became known as ''The Pearl of Pearl River County," sometimes called himself "The Old Maestro of the Stump," but more often simply referred to himself in the third person as "The Man Bilbo." He was sent to the State Legislature where he openly admitted taking bribes, but was acquitted by a jury. In 1916 he became Governor. In his first term he began a widely ballyhooed public building program of insane asylums, reform schools, tuberculosis sanatoria...
Government officials who want to know what the U. S. Press is saying about their little world generally have had a surprisingly hard time. Hiring a clipping agency is expensive. Few departments enjoy the services of a paper-clipper like little Theodore Gilman Bilbo, onetime Governor of Mississippi, who last summer got a $6,000 a year job "assembling current information for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration" (TIME, July 3). In full swing last week was a Federal organization designed to correct this situation-the Division of Press Intelligence, which publishes a daily Press Intelligence Bulletin of 60 or more mimeographed...
...postal workers be blamed for wondering why they must always fill the role of shock troops? A Bilbo, clipping newspapers at a desk lor $6,000 a year, gets no applause from a sub carrier, trying to exist at $8-or less-a week...