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...Bilbo...
Your amusing story of Mrs. Theodore G. Bilbo's being accosted. "Hey. Bilbo!" in Washington by Chief Guide William C. Hall as carried in June 22 TIME is impossible...
...that I am Mrs. Bilbo, of course...
Meanwhile Linda Gaddy Bilbo's husband stayed on the Poplarville pecan plantation while his State went from bad to worse financially. A bull-headed little man of the Blease-Vardaman stripe, Governor Bilbo continued deaf to pleas to call a special session of the Legislature to consider only fiscal legislation. The rump session last April at which no impeachments were promised failed to budge him (TIME, May 4). The State deficit had passed the $3,000,000 mark, was bowling along toward $7,000,000 by the year's end. With tax collections off, only by hand...
Surrounded by his nut trees. Governor Bilbo pondered these facts, and others, wrote a speech in which he forecast Mississippi's future, told why it got in such a bad hole. Later in the week he set forth on a typical Bilboan barnstorming trip through the State's swamp towns and back-country villages. State law barred him from re-election but he was bent on picking his own successor...