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Highhanded Stand. It was a shrewd if highhanded stand; by long precedent the chairmen of Senate committees do hire and fire employees. But it is also understood that they get the consent of other members. Aware of this, Fighting Joe backpedaled a step or two: he agreed to drop Matthews, in return for the promise of Michigan's Republican Senator Charles E. Potter to go along with McCarthy's claim to sole control over committee employees. That got all three Republicans back on McCarthy's side again...
...Land . . . any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." Laws must be made "in pursuance" of the Constitution, but treaties need only be made "under the Authority of the United States," i.e., by the President, "by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate . . . provided two-thirds of the Senators present concur." Thus treaty provisions can, without legislation, become internal law, enforceable on individual citizens and overriding conflicting laws, both state and federal. If a treaty provision is not enforceable as it stands, Congress has the power under Article I to make "necessary...
...French and brought on parliamentary chaos, the new one is in the stable American style. It provides for three government branches-executive, legislative, judicial-with the five-year President as a strong chief executive. The President, not the unicameral legislature, may declare war, although he must have the consent of the Deputies...
...engagement is marked as unusual by the agreement of the six persons envolved--the couple and both families, who have given their consent. The dissenting party, Earlham College, is left behind; both students graduated last spring...
...barber's son. A Bryn Mawr junior, the bride-to-be is the daughter of Jimmie Roosevelt and the former Betsey Gushing, who divorced Roosevelt in 1940 and is now the wife of Financier John Hay ("Jock&") Whitney. The engagement announcement broke the news that Whitney, with the consent of Jimmie Roosevelt, had legally adopted Sara in 1949 to put her in line for the family fortune (reportedly around $50 million). The groom-to-be is Concert Pianist Anthony di Bonaventura, 23, whom Sara met in Philadelphia two years ago while he was a music student at Curtis Institute...