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Archibald Cox, 48, Solicitor General. Ever present at Senator John Kennedy's side during the 1958-59 congressional battles over a labor reform bill was a trim, crew-cut law professor whom North Carolina's grumpy Graham Barden dubbed "that nit picker from Harvard." Shy, witty
...rider that he tries to tack, at every, opportunity, onto school, housing or labor bills. It instantly arouses Southern oppo sition and Northern anguish, has killed at least one worthy bill and made Powell the most unpopular man in Congress. With the retirement of North Carolina's Graham Barden at the end of the present session, Powell, thanks to the sacredness of seniority, has a legitimate claim on the chairmanship of the House Committee on Education and Labor next January...
...House, a bill for repeal, introduced last session by Rep. John V. Lindsay of New York, remains mired in a committee chaired by Rep. Graham Barden of North Carolina. Barden has sworn that he will never let the measure, or any similar one, reach the floor. Elder notes, however, that Elliott has shown Elder's letter urging repeal to Barden, so he feels that there may be some hope even in the House
...Maryland), Wilmington-withdrew. Others continued accepting money under protest, hoping that Congress would change the law. Last summer Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy tried to repeal the loyalty clause, but his bill was rejected 49-42. Future bills also face North Carolina's Democrat Graham A. Barden ("I have been signing allegiance to America ever since I was a Boy Scout"), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee. Having "bared my chest to the enemy," Barden aims to block any repeal "with every energy that...
...labor-union curbs being considered by the House Education and Labor Committee, thundered Lewis, are nothing more than a plot to oppress the poor laboring man: North Carolina Representative Graham Barden's reform bill is "88 pages of misery," and the mild Kennedy reform bill (TIME, May 4) is "66 pages of misery that is not quite so strong." As for Senator John McClellan's investigation of labor-management racketeering, it marked "a re-establishment of the principle of the Star Chamber of the Tudor and Stuart kings, with a slight touch of the Spanish Inquisition...