Word: charlestoning
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...Berle woke Cordell Hull at 1 a.m.: Franklin Roosevelt was allowed to sleep on until 3 a.m. A special train was waiting to return the President to Washington by nightfall. Secretary Hull rushed back. So did Denmark's greying, baronial Minister Henrik de Kauffmann, who was visiting in Charleston...
...last fortnight South Carolina's Public Service Authority announced that it was closing its Charleston office, moving to the State capital at Columbia. Reason given: the Charleston headquarters were only for preliminary work, now done. Along with the Authority would go PWA employes in Charleston...
...Charleston's merchants (who, unlike the old families, have long since warmed to the little TVA) rose in arms. Cried Mayor Henry W. Lockwood: "It seems that . . . the constant nagging of the newspaper on the Authority and everything the New Deal is for has brought this thing to a head. . . . The next thing you are going to do is lose your Navy Yard...
...gallantly: "Is it expected and demanded that a newspaper calling itself honest should stand by in silence, lest some of its friends suffer loss by not sharing in extravagant and wasteful spending of public money by genial politicians? ... If the editor of the News & Courier is an obstacle to Charleston, a thorn in its flesh, he ... is prepared at a moment's notice to remove himself. He is not prepared to move from his opinion...
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...