Word: magnolia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maybank was not the last of the Southern aristocrats in the Senate. Virginia's Harry Byrd is still very much alive. And as Burnet Rhett Maybank was buried in Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery last week, South Carolinians could remember how deep the stream of family runs in the low country. At the graveside was Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr., 30, a rising young member of the state legislature...
Senator Maybank's death threw South Carolina Democrats into turmoil. Governor James Byrnes wanted a special primary called. But old (66) State Senator Edgar A. Brown, the most powerful man in party circles-and a pine hill man-had other ideas. On the way to Magnolia Cemetery Brown's Cadillac turned out of the funeral cortege, and he hurried to Columbia, where, at an emergency meeting that day, the state Democratic executive committee, on Brown's insistence, decided against the primary plan. Then it handed the party's nomination to Brown...
...City," he rhapsodizes, "then and now the drinkingest community in all the wide, wonderful, boozy world-what profligate enchantments were not latent in the mere roll call of their names, perfumed with intimate association and Old Noble Treble Crown Whiskey! There were Pat Lynch's Place, The Old Magnolia, The Smokery. Gentry & Crittenden's, and the Howling Wilderness, a premises which never at any hour of the 24 betrayed the promise of commotional doings implicit in its name...
DeLong, which has been working on the 5,000,000-lb. barge with McDermott for the past year, is building a second unit capable of operating in 100 ft. of water, will lease it to Magnolia Petroleum Co. Barge No. 2 will be a deluxe model, with air-conditioned living quarters for a crew...
Juniors and intermediate offspring leave the Union at 9:15 a.m. to picnic for the day at Magnolia Beach, after which the juniors will return to Cambridge for a magic show and the intermediates will join their seniors in Essex square dancing...