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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...
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...
...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...
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...
...takes the things of this world to make even a religious picture. From his father, James Friedrich inherited about $200,000. In Hollywood he got himself a job as an assistant rector, rented two rooms at Selznick International Studios and hung out a sign reading: Cathedral Films. Author Dana Burnet supplied a script with plenty of entertainment value and with preaching carefully soft-pedaled. Once Friedrich met hard-bitten James Thompson Coyle, veteran Hollywood Jack-of-all-trades, and sold him on the idea that a religious picture could make money, Cathedral Films was ready to produce The Great Commandment...