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Since President Truman appointed Tom Clark and Sherman Minton to the Supreme Court a year ago, many people have maintained the Bench's decisions show signs of a swing to the right. Others have argued that there has been no change or that, if anything, the Court is more liberal than before...
...Magpie was the third U.S. warship hit by floating mines off Korea. The destroyers Brush and Mansfield had suffered eleven dead, three missing, 17 wounded, but managed to limp back to port. In Washington, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Forrest P. Sherman said the mines were Russian-made, "only recently from the warehouse," probably set adrift in Korean rivers. More than 65 have been swept up so far. They are illegal under The Hague Convention of 1907, which forbids unmoored mines. Russia, however, had never signed the convention...
According to Radcliffe's Dean Sherman, "There simply did not seem to be a pressing need or widespread popular demand at either Harvard or Radcliffe for drastic revision . . . It seems hardly worthwhile to enter into highly complicated rules and regulations which joint organizations would entail...
Horrid Word. When the first U.S. Sherman tanks (mounting 76-mm. guns) arrived, they were smashed by the harder-hitting 858 of the enemy's T-34 tanks. Thereafter the U.S. avoided tank-to-tank slugging until heavier Pershings, with 90-mm. guns, began to reach Korea at the end of July. The first damaging inroads on enemy armor were made by Allied airplanes and by 3.5-in. bazookas, capable of penetrating eleven inches of armor, the first of which were dispatched to Korea by emergency air shipment from the U.S. It was clear that if the Kum River...
...Tuesday morning Baker received an order to head northward from Poun and keep going until he linked up with the U.S. 7th Division. At 11:30 a.m., his company took off-three Sherman tanks, preceded by three intelligence and reconnaissance jeeps. At Chongju, a group of weeping women told Baker's dust-stained men that the Reds in the town were holding their husbands and families as hostages and that all would be killed if the tanks continued their advance. Said Baker later: "Our orders were to go through, so we went through...