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During the last four years there has hung an almost life-size picture of a skeleton in the office of Mississippi's short, wry-faced Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. Across the skull was written large: MIKE CONNER. Last week the Democratic voters of Mississippi nominated Mike Conner to enter the executive mansion at Jackson next January, rip down the skeleton, replace his foe, Governor Bilbo...
...failure of its other relief schemes, tossed a startling proposal. It was: Let the South plow under one-third of its cotton crop. The idea was not new. It had been suggested and summarily dismissed at a cotton conference at Austin, Tex. fortnight ago. Stocky little Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo of Mississippi had revamped it into a suggestion that planters simply abandon one out of every three rows in the fields. Within 24 hours the Farm Board had filched the Bilbo idea (without credit) and offered it to the Governors of the 14 cotton-growing States as a solution...
...only Governor who championed the Farm Board's proposal was the one from whom the Board had borrowed it- Mississippi's Bilbo. Cried he: "The greatest thing the Farm Board has done for the cotton farmers since saving our market in 1930!" But Governor Bilbo opposed plowing under one row out of three as a "waste of $1,000,000 in time and labor." He would leave the third row standing unpicked...
Unless the automobile carrying Mrs. Bilbo was backing toward Guide Hall the hitter had no way of knowing the car was from Mississippi as that State issues but one license tag which is placed on the rear of motor vehicles...
...front of Mrs. Bilbo's one tag car, sharp-eyed Guide Hall spied the coat of arms of Mississippi...