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...evening last fortnight some 200 University of Mississippi students stood about watching a dummy burning high on their campus flagpole. It was an effigy of Mississippi's stormy, scarfaced (from a pistol-butt) little Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. No riotous impulse but a well-organized gesture was the effigy-burning, representing student disapproval of Governor Bilbo's lavish dismissal last summer of 179 officials and faculty members in four of Mississippi's state-controlled institutions (University of Mississippi, Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College, Mississippi State College for Women, State Teachers College...
...Boys, we've just hung up a new record," Governor Bilbo had told newsmen. "We've bounced three college presidents and made three new ones in the record time of two hours. And that's just the beginning of what's going to happen." Presidents bounced by the Bilboard of Trustees (composed of two dentists, three lawyers, a physician, a bank cashier, controlling all but State Teachers College) were Chancellor Alfred E. Hume of the University, Buz M. Walker of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Nellie Kiern of the Women's College.* New heads appointed...
Last week county officials had started no legal action against the lynchers, Mississippi's Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo had issued no statement...
...formal confession did she send to Governor Bilbo but rather a long rambling rhyme, which was generally printed throughout the South where few recognized it as the stuff of folklore. Primitively sing song, it markedly resembled the ballads that cowboys, railroaders, other migrant workers hear, repeat, embroider and spread throughout the Mid Far West...
...delivered her baby just as her father, "Pop" Gunter, was being arrested for murder. Convicted on the perjured testimony of Dorothy Louise, he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment. Last November, Mrs. Drew's conscience stung her into confessing the murder to Mississippi's Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo who promptly released her father from prison. Last week Mrs. Drew pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Ashland, awaited sentence...