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Through Washington this week spanged the opening shots of a battle over whether or not the U.S. will work wholeheartedly to help develop a world rule of law. The battleground was the 83rd annual meeting of the American Bar Association. Drawn up on one side were the forces that want the U.S. to lead in establishing a workable system of international law, on the other a determined rear guard, that is ready to fight tooth-and-nail to halt a necessary practical step. Point at issue is the so-called Connally Reservation, by which the U.S. reserves the right...
...paraded past ten large ranches. Hundreds of farmhands stuffed into their skimpy wallets a little green card that meant change and crisis for the valley. The card brought membership in the newly formed A.F.L.-C.I.O. Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee. The new union has picked the valley as the opening battleground in a major drive to organize the 2,300,000 laborers on U.S. farms, one of the biggest remaining gaps in U.S. organized labor...
...state was usually a Republican fastness. After 1928 it was Democratic-until 1956, when thousands of registered Democrats switched allegiance, and Dwight Eisenhower carried West Virginia back into Republican ranks. How West Virginia will vote at any given time is anybody's guess, and it is in that battleground state that Democratic Candidates Hubert Humphrey and John F. Kennedy have entered into a primary fight that might yet make the Hatfields and McCoys sit up and take notice...
...This state's primary put Arthur Vandenberg out of the Republican race for the presidency in 1940, stopped Willkie in 1944, and will be a key Democratic battleground...
...television that night. Later, he slipped upstairs to join 40 of his top campaign workers, who were just sitting down to dinner. Humphrey had no time to eat, left his followers with a fast pep talk. "Wisconsin, as you know, has been selected by the communications media as the battleground," he said. "This is the Madison Square Garden of politics...