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...Vardaman. Mississippi, where Jefferson Davis lived, where the illiteracy rate is fourth highest in the U. S., where poverty is said to have driven "all the good niggers'' over into Alabama, last week fairly outdid itself in the matter of picking a U.S. Senator. In the Democratic run-off primary a sizable majority of that State's electorate preferred Theodore Gilmore Bilbo to all comers...
...narrow margin he lost the run-off primary, but four years later he became the first Governor of Mississippi ever to serve a second term. In that term he wrecked the State's credit. In one swoop he angrily fired 179 State College officials & faculty members, remarking: "Boys, we've just hung up a new record!" So discredited was he that he refused to call a special tax session of the Legislature because its members would not first promise not to impeach him (TIME, June 22, 1931). His prime enemy was a roly-poly politician from Seminary named...
...tried to save him. Secretary Marvin H. Mclntyre sent him a wire elaborately requesting his presence at the White House in the middle of the campaign. Third candidate was Representative Ross Collins, who went out in the first primary but Senator Stephens' lead was so slight that a run-off was called...
South Carolina Run-Off. Another Democratic primary which was as good as an election was South Carolina's run-off between Olin D. Johnston and Coleman Livingston Blease for the governorship. Candidate Blease, an oldtime, free-style rabble-rouser who has managed to keep himself on the public payroll pretty consistently since 1890, concludes his Who's Who biography: "The only South Carolinian who has been mayor of his city, senator from his county, speaker of the House, president of the State Senate, governor of the State 1911-15 and U. S. senator...
Last week in a run-off primary Representatives Tom D. McKeown and James V. McClintic also lost what, as practical politicians, they prized next to life itself-their House seats...