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...barbershop at Memphis, Tenn., last week. Theodore Gilmore Bilbo. Governor of Mississippi, was being-shaved. In the next chair, Governor Henry H. Horton of Tennessee was being shaved...
...Governor Bilbo: Oh, soso. Looks pretty easy for Smith. Think he'll carry the State by 15 to 1. How about Tennessee...
...Bilbo: What's he going to do nationally...
...Bilbo: I have a hunch he's going to win. . . . It's a funny election. For the first time in the history of the country the bootleggers and preachers are lined up on the same side-fighting for Hoover...
Nominee Hoover's secretary, George Akerson, sent Governor Bilbo a long, long telegram last week. He protested that Governor Bilbo, if quoted correctly in the press, had made "the most indecent and unworthy statement in the whole of a bitter campaign." The reported Bilboasm was to the effect that, on one of his Mississippi flood-relief trips, Mr. Hoover had "got off the train at Mound Bayou, Miss., and paid a call on a colored woman there and later danced with her." "That statement is unqualifiedly false," declared Secretary Akerson. "I was with Mr. Hoover every hour...