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Feeney refuses to allow Cambridge Building Commissioner Stephen F. Spenger to inspect his home at 990 Putnam Avenue. He says that a complaint to Spencer that he is an excommunicated rest is a lie, and that the "sacred privacy of the home' is being invaded as part of a "malicious persecution' instituted by Archbishop Cushing...
...proponents had their last word at about three o'clock and the opposition began with Representative Putnam. He complained that there were no copies of the bill, saying "I don't know whether I'm for or against this bill; I haven't seen it." Representative Donlan shouted that the Committee had been unfairly accused. "I think you owe this Committee an apology...
...Well, you won't get it," Putnam replied. Donlan went on, "You're just trying to pull a red herring across this Committee's path. Why are you up here if you don't know whether you're for this bill or not? Or are you doing this just as a front? I DON'T LIKE THESE SLURRING REMARKS...
Representative Good, another Committee member asked Putnam to define the term Witch-hunt...
...expert on that," replied Putnam. "My family was involved in the Salem witch-hunts. One of my ancestors, on my father's side, was the attorney who broke them...