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...Rep. John J. Toomey (D-Cambridge), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, yesterday opposed "selling any land whatsoever to Harvard" or to any other untaxable private interest." Toomey declared that he would support any legislative measure forcing the MTA to sell its property by competitive bidding after notifying officials of the town involved...
Stating there was "no doubt" Sullivan owned the land, Cronin went on to assert that the project would "add, not detract" from property values in the area. He said the buildings would be "first class apartment dwellings." Questioned about use of the land by Rep. Freyda Koplow, Cronin asserted that "you can rest assured it will not be rezoned for factories...
Asked about the cost of the project, Sullivan said he had no figure in mind because he had not had detailed plans made. Rep. Koplow suggested that it would be impossible to build apartments on the site which would rent for a reasonable amount...
After Sullivan had spoken, co-chairman Rep. G. Edward Bradley asked for a show of hands on the proposition. The large audience, mostly women, voted 158 to 14 against the measure. Several petitions in opposition to the bill also circulated during the hearing, and many legislators reported their opposition...
...Rep's performance is even palely entertaining, and it is, homage should be directed to the feet of Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, who wrote the thing in the first place, using a conventional mistaken-identity farce as a platform from which to mount a deadpan, deadly, beautifully epigrammatic attack on the hypocrisy of a society which was soon, hypocritically, to cast...