Word: maybanks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cotton Congressmen disagreed. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank cried that the order would "never work" and was the real start towards controlling other farm products, such as livestock, wheat and wool. He threatened to lead a move to knock the props out from under the whole price control act when it comes up before Congress for renewal in June...
...your groping for an . . . adjective to describe Senator Maybank's accent [TIME, Sept. 11 ], you made a poor choice in "molasses." Since he is a Charleston aristocrat, his speech is better described as a brogue, sharp, distinct, and staccato...
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...
...differences between the House and Senate bills; actually, behind closed doors-where much of Congress' work is really done, after the oratory dies down-they were devising a law. They had been arguing their differences for almost two weeks. In joint meetings, when they got to shouting, Chairman Maybank would bang the table with a water glass and order, "Quiet down." Meeting mornings, afternoons and, frequently, nights, the joint committee of 16 men last week finally reached agreement...
Baruch had recommended rolling wages and prices back to their pre-Korea levels. That would be impossible, Maybank argued. Many firms, for example, had laid in big stocks at high post-Korea wholesale prices, now had to unload them at high post-Korea retail prices or take ruinous losses. Besides, the mere job of getting across-the-board enforcement started, Government experts figured, would cost $400 million, require 65,000 more federal workers. "I said when we started out," said Maybank, "that I wouldn't be the uncle of any damned...