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...last week Linda Gaddy Bilbo, tall, thin, grey-haired wife of the stocky little pecan-growing Governor of Mississippi, summoned her Cadillac to the front door of the Bilbo home at Poplarville, Miss. To her Negro chauffeur, an ex-convict pardoned by her husband, she named her destination: West Point, N. Y. Then away she drove to visit her son. Cadet Theodore Gilmore Bilbo Jr., a plebe at the U. S. Military Academy...
...some appropriate local epithet. "Hey, Cracker!" he would call to Georgians. Tourists from Illinois were greeted with "Hey, Capone!'' and from North Carolina, "Hey, Tar Heel!" When Guide Hall saw a big car with a Mississippi tag rolling toward him, he sung out the state cry: "Hey, Bilbo...
...State of Mississippi last week, on the word of its stocky little, pecan-growing Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, was confronted with a major catastrophe. Its treasury was practically empty. It had overdrawn its bank balance by $7,000,000. It was on the brink of defaulting on its public debt.* Bankruptcy threatened to close its schools, turn its prisoners out of jail, free its insane. Its air reeked with hidden scandal. Between Governor Bilbo and the Legislature existed a spectacular deadlock to dim the chances of quick political relief. Born in Juniper Grove 53 years ago, a fluent lawyer-politician...
...Legislature-House Speaker Tom Bailer, Ways & Means Chairman Joe George, Appropriations Chairman Lawrence Kennedy, Judiciary Chairman Walter Sillers-issued an extra-legal call for an unofficial session at Jackson on April 27. The "Big Four" thought that if they could get the Legislature into the Capitol, Governor Bilbo would be forced to legalize its sitting by issuing a predated call. The wily Governor, however, countered by pointing out that April 27 was Confederate Memorial Day and that the Capitol would be closed for a holiday. The "Big Four" postponed the meeting one day. Declared Governor Bilbo...
Definite action taken during the meet ing was to adopt resolutions: 1) dropping from the Association's eligible list four Mississippi State-controlled institutions from which Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo dismissed 179 officials and faculty members last June (TIME, Dec. 29) ; 2) requiring that university professors who receive "compensation" from corpo rations shall enter no "public discussion of questions of public policy" without naming the corporation...