Word: burnet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time in 50 years a Charleston Aristocrat is bound for the U.S. Senate. In a special run-off primary last week, husky, sandy-haired Governor Burnet Rhett Maybank won the Democratic nomination which in South Carolina is equivalent to election...
Governor Maybank is a high-born gentleman. Among his planter ancestors were five Governors of South Carolina. Like all of Charleston's quality, he lives in the faded district between Broad Street and the Battery. But Burnet Maybank Street is no ghostly revenant; he is is a hustling politician who knows what his people want- and a good friend of Franklin Roosevelt, who can give it to them...
...woman tourist spied a skinny old nag slumped neglectedly against a fence post near Charleston, wrote a beseeching letter to South Carolina's vigorous, Klan-cracking Governor Burnet Rhett Maybank. The Governor looked into the matter, offered a home for the aged horse at the Executive Mansion. Vowed he: "I love horses and everything connected with wild life. We'll never shoot him, I promise. Don't let the horse down...
Bailey, grumpily, but with 26 votes; Michigan's Highway Commissioner Murray Van Wagoner, 38 votes; Iowa's Henry A. Wallace, 22 votes; Alabama's Speaker William Bankhead, 22 votes; South Carolina's Governor Burnet Maybank, 16 votes...
Last week Charleston's merchants waited for a hearing before the Authority to urge it to reverse its decision. In Columbia, Governor Burnet Rhett Maybank (first chairman of the Santee-Cooper River project) called on the General Assembly to investigate the Authority...