Word: mchugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Absolved of obscenity: Poets Gaius Valerius Catullus and Vincent McHugh; by a grand jury in Manhattan. The jury threw out a suit brought last spring by famed Dirt Chaser John S. Sumner, who had objected to a phallic "Suite from Catullus" in Adaptei McHugh's book, The Blue Hen's Chickens, Sumner, who caid he was "not at all surprised," was now operating his battered old Society for the Suppression of Vice under a slightly more delicate name: the Society to Maintain Public Decency...
...Chicago's frenetic Hearstlings* this looked like an opportunity too good to be missed. The Herald-American forced a few crocodile tears down its face, and did its best to make martyred heroes of Connelly and Drury. Then it hired them as reporters. Oldtime Police Reporter Leroy ("Buddy") McHugh, a veteran of Front Page days, was assigned to help them out. Then Connelly and Drury were turned loose...
When prices dropped after the war, and with them the fishermen's take-home pay (based on a share in the profits), McHugh ordered each boat to limit its catch, in an effort to bolster the market. Crews that disobeyed were fined, or kept on the beach. The Federal Government refused to interfere, citing the exemption of unions from prosecution for trade monopoly under the Norris-LaGuardia Act. Then the union went a step further, ordered crews to refuse to sell fish for less than the former OPA prices...
Last week McHugh and his union found they had run hard aground on a submerged legal rock. The man that put them there was State Attorney General Clarence A. Barnes. Barnes, at 64, still has the bearing (and the crew haircut) of a Yale athlete*(class of '04), still thoughtfully putts golf balls around his office when mulling over a problem. Twice married and the father of nine children (the oldest, 40, the youngest, two), he has had a distinguished career as a lawyer and a militant Republican. His bill requiring labor unions to account publicly for their funds...
Determined to break Pat McHugh's stranglehold, Barnes charged that the union constituted an illegal monopoly under the state's laws. Superior Court Justice Edward T. Broadhurst agreed. The dispute, he found, was not a labor dispute between the union and employers, but a business matter between the union and the buyers. Last week Broadhurst issued a permanent injunction preventing the union from fixing the price or artificially limiting the supply of fish in Massachusetts markets. Henceforth the union would have to take its chances in the open market...