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Their alarm was not shared by the New York Times's shrewd diplomatic correspondent, James Reston. Wrote Reston: "There are many ways in which a Secretary of State can present a treaty to the Senate but the best way is to tell the Senators everything. This astonishes them, then bores them stiff, and eventually minimizes the ordeal...
...present House, 226 members who were for overriding the veto were reelected; they are a majority. In the Senate, 68 members voted to override; 50 of them are left-also a majority...
...Brattle Street business establishments have been forced to make way for the new branch of Corcoran's department store which will open for business late this summer, according to present plans...
...that the members of the House were unanimously in favor of H442. It is probable, as one representative has pointed out, that opponents of the measure were reluctant to speak for fear of bing branded "communist sympathizers." If this is so, it is a sad example of what the present hysteria can do to legislative bodies. The Sullivan Bill should never have been reported favorably out of committee; it should certainly never have passed the House. The Senate had better forget about the Red scare and kill this measure; otherwise, H442 may surprise everybody by being enacted into...
Massachusetts' Senate heard a letter yesterday from Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, denouncing the Sullivan Bill. The Senate is at present reviewing the proposal, which was passed by the House on Wednesday...