Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator Lister Hill had asked for 40,000 scholarships, Alabama's Representative Carl Elliott 23,000 and President Eisenhower 10,000. But its passage was a clear victory for Sponsors Hill and Elliott and a sore defeat for hard-rock states-righters, especially Senator William E. Jenner, who doggedly defended the manger with a motion excluding Indiana from all benefits. In four days of hard haggling, Senate-House conferees laughed off Jenner's antics, slowly worked out a bill that gave the Senate, which had little to trade with, a few minor concessions for its reluctantly abandoned scholarship...
...Kennedy-Ives failed (as expected) to carry a two-thirds vote. To keep blame where it is now, Republicans introduced a new labor bill, prepared to vote against Kennedy-Ives, figured the new bill was a better explanation for doing so. ¶ Indiana's caveman Senator William Jenner, in a gallery play, declared Indiana wanted no part of an aid-to-education bill under debate. Passing a bill authorizing $1.5 billion to improve education in the sciences, the Senate also gaily adopted a Jenner amendment exempting Indiana from any benefits. ¶ Senate and House passed a tax law that...
Eight Finance Committee irresponsibles voted for the major changes. The Democrats: New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, Delaware's J. Allen Frear, Oklahoma's Robert Kerr, Louisiana's Russell Long, Florida's George Smathers. The Republicans: Indiana's William Jenner, Nevada's George Malone, Pennsylvania's Edward Martin. Often thought of as a blinkered old fogy, Virginia's Committee Chairman Harry Byrd. 71, rose to his responsibility by backing the House's version...
Indiana. Retiring Republican Senator William Jenner, 49, succeeded in promoting the G.O.P. nomination of his hand-picked candidate: Republican Governor Harold Willis Handley, 48. Handley's Democratic opponent: Evansville's Mayor R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 39. whose chances-remarkable in the traditionally Republican Hoosier state-are fifty-fifty...
...Making him the sixth Republican to decline to run for Senate reelection. The others: Vermont's Ralph Flanders, California's William Fife Knowland, Pennsylvania's Edward Martin, New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith and Indiana's William E. Jenner...