Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...classification of Republican politicians, Indiana's U.S. Senator William Ezra Jenner has been for years the prototype of the reactionary. A belly-punching precinct politician, he washed up through his state's G.O.P. organization and into the U.S. Senate on a wave of wild generalizations and crustacean thinking. He gained a national reputation for his unrestrained and often undocumented charges against people and programs he did not like (it was Jenner who called General of the Army George Marshall a "front man for traitors"). In 1952 he was re-elected in the Eisenhower landslide, but neither...
...more interested in constructive action. In 1952, for instance, the Harvard Liberal Union, working in conjunction with several members of the faculty in a nationwide Civil Liberties Appeal, helped raise over $14,000 in a futile effort to unseat two main "opponents of civil liberties," Republican Senators William Jenner of Indiana and Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin...
March 26, 1953: Kamin appears before Jenner Sub-committee. Denies he was then a Communist, but refuses all other testimony. Cites Fifth Amendment...
...York Times ... It seems to us to be a further obvious conclusion that the Times has been singled out for this attack precisely because of the vigor of its opposition to many of the things for which Mr. Eastland, his colleague [Indiana Republican Senator William E.] Jenner and the subcommittee's counsel stand-that is, because we have condemned segregation in the Southern schools; because we have challenged the high-handed and abusive methods employed by various Congressional committees; because we have denounced McCarthyism and all its works; because we have attacked the narrow and bigoted restrictions...
...Communism in the U.S. press? Yes, said Senator Eastland. Would it investigate the Washington press corps? No, he quickly assured a questioner. Had the investigation shown any Communist effort to influence the content of any recognized metropolitan daily? Said Eastland: "No." But as the hearings ended, he and Senator Jenner maintained that the sessions had disclosed "a significant effort on the part of Communists to penetrate leading American newspapers." They added: "We feel confident that the American press will prove fully competent to deal with the problem in its own American...