Word: maybank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Postman Ernest Baker's brood of eight. The Bakers lived in a big frame house on Hampton Avenue, and all the youngsters worked to help out. "We've never been poor," said Ernest Baker, "but we weren't rich either." When South Carolina sent Burnet Maybank to the Senate in 1941, Maybank owed a political favor to a man in Pickens, offered to make his son a Senate page. The boy turned it down, and Bobby Baker was recommended in his place. He had never been away before, and upon reaching Washington he became miserably homesick. Teacher...
Thurmond left the Governor's mansion in 1951 and opened a private law practice in Aiken, S.C. In 1954 he staged a write-in campaign for the Senate seat of Burnet Maybank, who had died between the primary and general elections. Thurmond defeated a candidate who had been handpicked by the state's presiding Democratic leaders and went to Washington. There, he distinguished himself mostly for his windiness: in 1957, during a one-man filibuster against pending civil rights legislation, Thurmond kept talking for 24 hours and 18 minutes, stoked himself through the night with pumpernickel, hamburger meat...