Word: charlestoning
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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...
Meanwhile, in six years, Charleston's Maybank has generated enough power from Santee-Cooper to bring his ship into Washington...
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...
...small army of workmen moved in. They built a dam across the Santee. From the Santee they dug a canal, built another dam, a lock and a powerhouse, diverting some of he Santee's impounded waters into the Caller Cooper River, which empties into the sea at Charleston. (The Cooper, as every Charleston schoolboy knows, "joins the Ashley River at Charleston to form the Atlantic Ocean...