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...That may be correct," replied Mrs. Linda Gaddy Bilbo, 56. "He is just gone and does not come home...
...have been followed by reinstatements, some by payments to injured parties. Since 1931 A. A. U. P. has packed extra power behind its punches by blacklisting unrepentant offenders. First to go on the list were four of Mississippi's institutions of higher learning, after Governor Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo's spectacular purge of 179 presidents, deans, professors. When Bilbo's successor reinstated the purged pedagogs, Mississippi was returned to favor. Currently in academic Coventry are Harris Teachers College (St. Louis). Rollins College, Brenau College (Gainesville, Ga.), De Pauw University and the U. S. Naval Academy. No loyal...
...call an inferiority complex. ... I cannot escape the conviction that Southerners would have a better chance to find the philosopher's stone by opening their eyes than they would by keeping them tightly closed." Southern politics, says he, with its Tom-Tom Heflin, Huey Long and The Man Bilbo should be reported on the sport pages where it belongs. The Southern conscience has never honestly faced the Negro question: the Civil War amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) should either be legally repudiated or enforced. "On the whole," Author Cason concludes, "the South would profit from a nice, quiet revolution...
...Stephens enjoyed the dignity and $10,000 pay of a U. S. Senator, one of his former political opponents in Mississippi was glad to hold the lowly job of newspaper clipper in the AAA at a salary of $6,000. The paper clipper was ex-Governor Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. Before primary time arrived "The Man" rushed back to Mississippi, proposed a 27-point platform for the beatification of Mississippi, attacked the record of Senator Stephens particularly because he had almost voted to give a Republican, Dr. Willard Thorp, a $9,000 job as an expert in the Department...
When Mr. Stephens did lose his seat to Bilbo, his old friends, John Nance Garner and Pat Harrison, were afraid that The Man Bilbo would block Senate confirmation of an RFC appointment for Mr. Stephens. They undertook a diplomatic mission to Senator Bilbo...