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...weeks ago, all three candidates were Roosevelt men. Maybank's opponents were both natives of the plebeian "upcountry" which had ruled South Carolina since 1890. Former Governor Johnston, born in a sharecropper's cabin, once worked as a lint-head in the textile mills. Representative Joseph R. Bryson was once a millhand too. Burnet Maybank called at the White House. When he left, he was authorized to announce that South Carolina would get two more fat power developments: a $28,000,000 project on the Savannah River, southwest of Charleston, another at Lylesford, northwest of Columbia. A week...
Then in a single day two churches were dedicated there, both in North Carolina, whose 10,219 Catholics in a 3,563,174 population give it a lower percentage of Catholics than China. They were built at Bryson City and Waynesville with money raised elsewhere by Father Ambrose Rohrbacher, whose 3,500-square-mile parish has a congregation of only 50 and whose local offerings barely cover his gas bill as he drives about saying Mass in private homes of six other towns. Fifty North Carolina counties have no Catholic church...
...size of the job ahead was indicated by the variety of viewpoints represented on an executive committee which was set up. That committee includes Chairman Finkelstein, Critic Van Wyck Brooks, Educators Lyman Bryson and Lawrence K. Frank, Biophysicist Caryl P. Haskins, Political Scientist Harold D. Lasswell, Sociologist Robert M. Maclver, Physicist Robert J. Havighurst, Philosopher Filmer S. C. Northrop, Catholic Theologians Gerald B. Phelan and Gerald G. Walsh, Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Dean Luther A. Weigle of the Yale Divinity School. There was small hope that such men of good will could do the job before them in time...
Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace (Sun. 7 p. m. CBS) discusses What Should We Do About Our Surpluses? with General Hugh Johnson. Professor Lyman Bryson over a Washington hotel dinner table...
Third Term Debate (Sun. 7 p.m. CBS) by Common Sense Editor Alfred Bingham, Bank Executive Walter A. Williams, a longshoreman, a stenographer; at Lyman Bryson's dinner table...