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Word: burnet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Trend | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...informed, despite the fact that a number of scientists in various parts of the world have attempted to confirm Dr. Adler's work, only one man feels that he possibly has done so -a French worker, Dr. Etienne Burnet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editor, Old Style | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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