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...summoning House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Minority Leader Joe Martin, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Minority Leader William Knowland and foreign relations leaders in both houses, the President sought no commitments. He had no immediate plan to call a special session of Congress during its pre-election recess. Instead, the group had been assembled to hear the issues discussed by John Foster Dulles before he flew to London for this week's Suez conference, and to get some idea of how grave the situation...
Julian's announcement indicates that no long postponement is intended. Any date during the summer is possible, however, since Judge Bailey Aldrich '28, who will try the case, will not take the usual summer recess...
...halfway point in the second session of the 84th Congress, U.S. Senators and Representatives went home last week for a ten-day Easter recess. While they rested, they could look back on three months of hard work-but no real accomplishment...
Since the session began, the House has passed 305 bills, the Senate has pushed through 424. But most of this action has been a spinning of small wheels. In a recess time summation of the "50 most important bills passed by the Senate," so far, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had to pad even that list with essentially trivial legislation, e.g.: "H. R. 3233 ... makes it a federal offense to move across state lines to avoid prosecution or custody for arson...
Coinciding with this improved academic performance is the growing interest, part of a general Harvard awakening, of Winthrop men in their two annual plays: the House play given before the Christmas recess and the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, which this year will be The Mikado. The latter production, currently being rehearsed, has obtained expanded theatrical facilities and as a result will be a much more ambitious and lavish undertaking than operetta in previous years...