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...runty little man with a pistol-butt scar on his hollow cheek pattered into an office in the Department of Agriculture last week. He undid a paper package, produced a pair of shears and two pots of paste. With these arranged neatly on his desk, Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, demagog extraordinary and twice (1916-20, 1928-32) Governor of Mississippi, inducted himself into a job announced officially as "having charge of assembling current information records for the Adjustment Administration from news, magazine and other published sources." Paper-clipper Bilbo's reported salary...
Paper-clipper Bilbo's first official act was to send his assistant off for an after noon of browsing at the Library of Congress. His next was to admit a platoon of newshawks...
There was a bustle as a photographer hurried in. He set up his camera, efficiently brushed the paste pots aside, stuck a pencil in Mr. Bilbo's hand. "Now, Governor." he briskly directed, "just try to look like you're busy...
...bribery but for contempt of court Theodore Gilmore Bilbo was sentenced to 30 days, of which he served ten, in jail at Oxford. He had refused to testify in a $100,000 seduction suit brought by a Capital stenographer against his good friend Governor Lee Maurice Russell...
From the courthouse steps at Poplarville, Miss., short, scarred Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, stormy onetime Governor of Mississippi, watched a U. S. deputy marshal sell his $50,000 "dream house," 3,000-acre estate and 400-acre pecan orchard for $500 and court costs. Reason for the sale: to satisfy a judgment in favor of a bank receiver. Asked whether he would make a bid at the sale. Lawyer Bilbo snapped: "Will you supply the money...