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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Theodore Bilbo was born 56 years ago on a back-country farm in south Mississippi. One of eight children, he worked as a laundryman, mill hand and news butcher to pay his way through college. From his book learning he drew dividends by teaching mathematics and Latin for six years at Aaron Academy, Nicholson High School, in grade schools at Bayou Encent, Anner, Kiln and Wiggins. At this time he was licensed but not ordained as a Southern Baptist minister. And then he got into politics...
...matter how distasteful its attacks may be. And the assaults of early "Hoot" days were not lacking in virulence by any means. The jolts given to undergraduate complacency were many and telling. The frequent overstatement and violence were at least partially justifiable on the grounds that they undoubtedly drew marked attention to certain valid criticisms...
There had been a slight rift when Benito Mussolini drew France, Britain and Germany into his Four-Power Pact (TIME, May 29, 1933, et seq.). This came to nothing but Poland, piqued at not having been invited into Il Duce's prospective club and suspicious of France for joining without her, smoldered with resentment. Warsaw was thus in receptive mood when Berlin proposed Adolf Hitler's most statesmanly idea thus far, namely, that the Polish Corridor question should be put officially on ice for ten years by a non-aggression pact between the two countries. This was duly...
...Colonel Beck. In Berlin the Realmleader was reported to have stormed to an official of the Wilhelmstrasse last week, "If France and Russia have an alliance, then let this alliance come out into the open!" But such is not the method of the Old Diplomacy. Without an alliance France drew England into the Great War and M. Barthou is content to make for the moment an entente with Russia...
...last minute burst of Swiss indignation against the Soviet Union, Swiss Chief Delegate Dr. Giuseppe Motta rehearsed how in 1918 Bolsheviks sacked the Swiss legation in Petrograd and recalled that Lenin once defined the League of Nations as "an institution of brigandage." In a fiery peroration Dr. Motta drew chaos from the gallery and handclaps from a few delegates by branding the Soviet Union as the universal betrayer of religion. "Their churches in Russia are abandoned and fall in ruins," cried Dr. Motta. ". . . Communism dissolves the family; it suppresses individual initiative; it abolishes private property. Russia is afflicted with...