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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...
...vital water had been produced. Air raids slowed Germany's industry, disrupted her communications. The pile-builders never got all the uranium they needed. They were forced to work in cellars and air-raid shelters. In 1945, they took refuge in a dugout hewn in the rock near the village of Haigerloch, about 32 miles from Stuttgart...
Last week Senator Baldwin, a Willkieman in 1940, sounded his rebel cry in public. In an article in the American Magazine, he hit hard at "rock-ribbed ultra-conservatism" and at the record of the G.O.P. leadership in Congress. Wrote Baldwin...
...excited talk about a Republican trend which would make victory in 1948 inevitable. Now we know better. If we are to remain the majority party we must act effectively in the interests of a majority of people. If we act in the interest only of a minority of rock-ribbed Republicans, we shall again become a minority party...
...Bethesda, Md., delivered to convalescing Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King at the Naval Hospital was the special gold medal authorized last year by Congress "on behalf of a grateful nation." The back of the medal bore a muscular charioteer with three plunging horses, the front side a rock-solid, very nautical admiral...