Word: bubba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other major Democratic candidates in the primary have thrown their support to Treen, whose buttoned-down conservatism they prefer to Lambert's unbuckled populism. In a televised debate, Lambert strongly implied that Treen had offered to pay off the campaign debts of House Speaker Edgerton L. ("Bubba") Henry and State Senator Edgar ("Sonny") Mouton and give them top jobs in his administration in exchange for their support. The outraged legislators claimed that Lambert made the offer, not Treen, and they challenged Lambert to join them in taking a lie detector test. Then Charles ("Buddy") Roemer III, who ran unsuccessfully...
Bubble-Yum lovers make way; Hubba Bubba will soon be here...
Late last December, Robert Earl ("Bubba") May Jr., 14, was arrested with three companions for using a shotgun to rob two fireworks stands near the sleepy farm town of Brookhaven, Miss., and stealing a wallet. Two nights later Bubba and two of his accomplices robbed a grocery and beat up a saleswoman. Indicted on four counts of armed robbery, he was convicted only a week later. His sentence: 48 years in prison without chance of parole, the product of a plea bargain by his court-appointed attorney...
...Bubba, 4 ft. 7 in., 75 lb., was packed off to join 1,800 felons at Mississippi's overcrowded state penitentiary at Parchman. Predicted Ronald R. Welch, director of the Mississippi Prisoners' Defense Committee: "He'll never live out the sentence...
...last week it appeared that Bubba's case would be reopened. In the meantime, he is undergoing psychiatric examination at Parchman, where he is being protected by a trusted lifer assigned him by the warden. Says Defense Counsel Julie Ann Epps: "He's a terrified little boy who really doesn't understand what's going on. He doesn't know what 48 years...