Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Question: Why Not? Until George Craig came along in 1952, Bill Jenner was the kingpin in the Indiana Republican Party for nearly eight years. To get and hold control, Jenner had spent more than 20 years shouting and shoving his way upward, through the state senate, into the state chairmanship of his party and on to the U.S. Senate. Then Craig burst upon the Jenner forces as a past national commander (1949-50) of the American Legion, and slipped past the old G.O.P. powers to win the Republican nomination for governor. Elected in a landslide...
...hands in the state legislature were horrified. "Dictator," they cried. Said Senate Majority Leader John Van Ness, a Jenner man: "What the governor had in mind was a plan that appealed primarily to the executive or the industrialist. He had a government graph here which would have been excellent for a big corporation. Now, you know, you don't change state government overnight to fit a graph." Craig's answer...
...side-taking began even before Craig was inaugurated. When the Jenner-blessed Republican state chairman called a Republican caucus to elect a Jenner man as speaker of the state house of representatives, the Craig forces countered with an earlier call for a caucus, and elected their own man. They nudged out the Jennerite state chairman, and transferred the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, a juicy patronage plum in Indiana, out of the hands of the Jenner-aligned secretary of state.* By that time Bill Jenner, with clenched fist, was telling reporters: "George Craig is only going to push...
Delay & Deal. Like Senator Malone, most politicians in Indiana feel all right about this process. But if they are at odds with the state administration, they feel just terrible about who is getting the benefit. When Jenner & Co. saw that more toll roads projected for the future would give the Craig organization a potent long-range weapon, they decided to set up some roadblocks...
...sixth day of the 1955 session of the legislature last January, Jenner men introduced in the state senate a bill that would have effectually blocked construction of Craig's next proposed toll road. Their public argument: the legislature, and not the governor, should control the activities of the Toll Road Commission...