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Senator Burnet Maybank, in shirt sleeves and red-eyed with fatigue, marched across a deserted Capitol corridor and pounded on a chamber door. It was long after most Congressmen had gone home. There was a muffled response from inside the room. In a molasses accent, South Carolina's Maybank shouted: "Aw right, we-ah ready." A group of scowling members of the House emerged from the chamber and rejoined a delegation of Senators in another room, there to put their tired heads together again over the provisions of the Defense Production bill-the bill to control the nation...
Neither Time nor Competence. At this point, many of his own Republican colleagues parted from Taft. New York's unfrightened Irving Ives pointed out that the Maybank bill (similar to the bill the House passed) contains safeguards against threats of dictatorship, that "Congress has neither the time nor the special competence necessary to administer economic controls," and that Taft's kind of congressional supervision might paralyze the country's whole effort in a crisis...
...Maybank and Kentucky's Representative Brent Spence. Said Spence: "I think the people are in a mood to give the President whatever power is needed...
...Democrats: Chapman, Ky.; Frear, Del.; Fulbright, Ark.; George, Ga.; Gillette, Iowa; Graham, N.C.; Hill, Ala.; Kilgore, W. Va.; Maybank, S.C.; Miller, Idaho; Sparkman, Ala.; Aithers, Ky. Republicans: Baldwin, Conn.; Cain, Wash.; Ecton, Mont.; Hendrickson, N.J.; McCarthy, Wis.; Thye, Minn.; Young...
Married. Burnet Rhett Maybank, 49, blue-blooded, white-supremacist U.S. Senator from South Carolina; and Mrs. Mary Randolph Pelzer Cecil, 47, widow of naval hero Rear Admiral Charles P. Cecil (onetime commander of the cruiser Helena), each for the second time; in Charleston...