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...Railroad's Patriot rattled into Boston two hours and 31 minutes late from Washington one night last week, the railroad might have counted it as just one more routine Late Arrival. But as luck had it, one of the irate passengers was Massachusetts' Republican Representative John W. Heselton. Fuming at what he called New Haven President Patrick McGinnis' "public-be-damned policy," Heselton announced that he will ask Congress to fix "civil or criminal penalties" for railroaders who cannot run their trains on time...
...Congressional elections, there were no surprising changes. Democratic House majority leader John W. McCormack of Boston won easily, as did Republicans John W. Heselton and Edith Nourse Rogers. Representative from the Cambridge district, Democrat Thomas P. O'Neill, outdistanced his opponent from the start. Returns indicated that the Republicans would continue to hold a slim majority in the state's 14-man House delegation...
While I regret your decision to support Stevenson, I concur with your belief that one who supports a presidential candidate should ordinarily support also the legislative candidates who can make his administration effective. At the same time, I think your making of exceptions for Senator Lodge and Representative Heselton is amply justified...
...support with but one exception all Massachusetts Democrats running for the U.S. House of Representatives. This includes the present House Majority Leader, John W. McCormack, who has an especially good voting record, and the nominee from the Cambridge district, Thomas P. O'Neill. Our one exception is John W. Heselton, an incumbent Republican from the western part of the state, who has distinguished himself by independence of mind and a liberal voting record...
...exhausted from the bigger battles. The member from Michigan, claiming that the inscrutability of the Spanish names had confused the Committee into perpetrating a great injustice, moved a revote. Brown, starting like a warhouse to the sound of trumpets, bellowed a point of order, and the wrangle began anew. Heselton took the podium and threatened to include Puerto Rico in the minority report, a threat which due to lack of time and the great bitterness on the Convention floor never materialized. This argument merged with another--something to do with motorcycle escort for Committee members to Convention Hall...