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Mickey "the Dude" Sullivan, flery crusader against the Kremlin, hit the headlines all over the country when he had a resolution passed by the Cambridge City Council which would prohibit the presence of any book within Cambridge which had the words "Lenin or Leningrad...
...have a good laugh and other people can laugh with him and everything is fine. But when he starts poking fun at the legislative process and at the principles of law themselves, the laugh turns to a whinny. When Mickey introduced his latest resolution about the deletion of Lenin and Leningrad from the Cambridge scene, and then proceeded to secure its unanimous passage by the Cambridge City Council, he destroyed all the faith anyone could have had in his sincerity or in his intelligence. One or the other--there's no further choice...
Mike Sullivan, the City Councilman who thinks of himself as a lonely knight tilting against the dragon of Communism, revealed yesterday that he knew his resolution banning the use of the words "Lenin" and Leningrad" anywhere in Cambridge was unconstitutional...
...Late at night on December 14, the day before Earl Browder Spoke at Tech, he told the CRIMSON that he intended to dress up in a suit of armor, mount a eart-horse and ride down to joust with the Communist leader. He admitted yesterday that his resolution against Lenin was an even more effective publicity stunt...
...have to get at the foundation of a thing to be effective," he said, giving his reasons for choosing Lenin as the focus of his attack on Communism. In his view of the Finnish War. "Russia is a big boulder coming down on a pebble; but the pebble was able to slip aside, and now it is dynamiting the houlder...