Word: bilboasm
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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...
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