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...were known to be in Washington. The sergeant at arms' staff routed Nevada's Senator Berkeley L. Bunker out of his office by using a passkey, captured Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar by inducing a chambermaid to unlock his hotel apartment. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank, reached at his home by telephone, agreed to come quietly...
...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...
Robust, 6 ft. 1 in., Burnet Maybank played football at the College of Charleston then joined his uncle in the cotton-export business. Ten years ago he ran for mayor of Charleston as a businessman's candidate, carried every ward in the city. Maybank put Charleston back on its feet financially. But his political career really in in 1935, when as chairman of South Carolina's Public Service Authority he sponsored a PWA power project on the big, clay-red, ambling Santee River, which empties into the sea some 45 miles northeast of Charleston...
...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 before the primary, Burnet Maybank called...