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...BURNET R. MAYBANK...
...TIME made no "charges," is at a loss to understand Governor Maybank's. TIME said: "Mayor of Charleston then (1935), and ambitious head of the State Public Service Authority, was Burnet Rhett Maybank, 40, first Charleston aristocrat since the Civil War with the energy and ability to win over enough low-born upstate farmers and mill hands to get himself elected Governor, which he did last year...
Mayor of Charleston then, and ambitious head of the State Public Service Authority, was Burnet Rhett Maybank, 40, first Charleston aristocrat since the Civil War with the energy and ability to win over enough low-born upstate farmers and mill hands to get himself elected Governor, which he did last year...
...Brown Danube (by Burnet Hershey) is the season's fifth anti-fascist fiasco. Like the others it falls short in imagination and scope. Unlike the others, it manages-simply as a florid, stagy melodrama-to keep moving. The story of a noble Austrian family who get in dutch after Anschluss, it tells of a beautiful princess who, to save her brother's life, agrees to marry a brutal Nazi Commissioner, of a sly old grandfather who has the winning card up his sleeve. In the end the harassed nobles get safely across the frontier-into Ruritania...
...likeliest qualifiers for a run-off primary, gave Senator Smith some chance of winning a majority on the first vote, next week. If he wins then or later, he will owe thanks to two friends of Franklin Roosevelt who refused to play their part in the Presidential purge: Mayor Burnet R. Maybank of Charleston, leading candidate for Governor, and South Carolina's junior Senator James ("Jimmy") Byrnes. They are fond of "Cotton Ed." and they know he cannot live forever. If he dies with his Senatorial boots on. Mr. Maybank may slip into them and Jimmy Byrnes (who, coming...