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...campaign for re-election since he went to the Senate 17 years ago. Reason: Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo. Down & Outer Up. During his second term as Governor of Mississippi (1928-32) blatant Theodore Bilbo kept in his office an almost life size picture of a skeleton with "Mike Conner" inscribed across the skull. At the end of that term, Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner, a bright young Bilbo protege who had broken away, defeated Bilbo's candidate for Governor, ousted the Bilbo faction. When "The Man" Bilbo turned up in Washington three years ago and asked Senator Harrison...
...August primaries "from hell to breakfast," Senator Bilbo declared, "I'm in the market for a colleague who will have some respect for me." The U. S. Senate showed its feelings in the matter by confirming Judge Holmes's promotion 59-to-4 (TIME, March 30). Mike Conner, on the strength of a good record as Governor, announced himself a candidate for Pat Harrison's seat. "The Man" Bilbo chose between his old and new hatreds, instructed his lieutenants to line up for Conner. Chief Conner campaign cry: "Pat Harrison has got too big for Mississippi...
...Summary: YALE HARVARD Hall, Peters, g. g., Gray Parker, r.f. r.f., Gosline, Junkin Keefe, l.f. l.f., Morrison Reese, r.h. r.h., Scott Whitney, c.h. c.h., Brainsford, Haskell Smith, l.h. l.h., Burbank, Sachs Belin, Hills, r.o. r.o., Fraley, Torney Carter, Belin, r.i. r.i., Howard Stranger, c.f. c.f., O'Conner, Brainsford Levine, li. l.i., Alexandre Hills, Cunningham, l.o. l.o., Arrowsmith...
...fire in three minutes with a hand extinguisher. Red-eyed and unshaven, aching all over, the brothers were stained with grease and carbon. Al, 28, had lost 20 Ib. Fred, 25, had gained ten. By this time all Mississippi was basking in their achievement, and Governor Conner made them honorary colonels in the State National Guard...
SALUTE TO APHRODITE-Rearden Conner-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Irish melodrama laid in the days of the Fenian conspiracies, revolving around a powerful peasant Don Juan...