Word: charlestoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...nuns play a major part in Catholic work in the U.S. Organized in 206 orders, large and small, they far outnumber all the nation's Quakers, are twice as numerous as the population of Charleston, S.C., three times as numerous as the nation's 50,203 Catholic priests and brothers. Any long-continued dearth of novices would be as serious for the church as drought is for a farmer...
...when Postmaster General Farley shook up the airmail contracts in 1934, Woolman saw his chance. With only two planes, 25 employes and more nerve than cash, he snagged the mail contract for the Dallas-Atlanta-Charleston, S.C. run. Meanwhile, 63-year-old ex-Newspaper Publisher Clarence Eugene Faulk, who made $500,000 when he sold his Monroe (La.) News-Star and Morning Post, was buying blocks of Delta at $5 a share. Later Delta stock went to $40 (then split 4-for-1) and Faulk went to the president's chair as finance overseer. Woolman became operating vice president...