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Democrats, who have lost all but one of the past eight Congressional by-elections, were taking care not to lose the next one. They were rushing one of their top-drawer attractions, Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, off to the Oklahoma hills to help swing next week's Second Congressional District election their way. Normally this would be considered sending...
...Children. Auburn-haired Michael and MacDonald, brunette Maureen and Madeline came into a home ready for only one baby. They were wrapped in cotton batting and pink-&-blue shawls, put into an "emergency" sideboard drawer and carried to wicker cots and baskets in Heanor's nursing home. Three-pound MacDonald, the last to arrive, died in his sixth day. His brother and sisters seemed to be doing well on a diet of milk, water, glucose, Vitamins...
...Claridge Hotel, Atlantic City's newest and tallest, an unprecedented two-day bull session took place last week. Business, labor and agriculture, as represented by 53 delegates out of the top drawer of 16 national organizations, met to thrash out, in closed session, an "area of agreement" on national postwar policies...
Stalingrad also developed a cadre of top-drawer commanders: the weak, the slow, the incompetent were weeded out without mercy. Those who survived were young, tough, skilled in the combined use of all armed branches-and often underestimated by the German foe. Many generals took unnecessary risks, for rivalry was keen, and the pressure from below urgent. But boldness usually paid off, for it was buttressed by muscle...
...spring of this year the manpower shortage was everywhere: a half-dozen Congressional committees were howling, the War Manpower Commission listed 36 acute labor areas, Franklin D. Roosevelt called on his top drawer-Messrs. Byrnes, Leahy, Baruch, Hopkins and Rosenman-for an answer to the new problem. There came out long tables of nondeferrable occupations, threats about "work-or-fight," 48-hour-week ukases...