Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presence was explained on March 19 of last year when Richard E. Combs, the counsel for the California Senate Committee (now the Burns Committee) testified in Washington before the Jenner Committee. Combs said that State Senator Hugh Burns had outlined a "contact plan" to the presidents of ten California colleges early...
Perhaps most significant in the entire muddled situation was the statement of Senator Jenner, who heard Combs' testimony. To Jenner there was no doubt but that Combs was describing the system accurately and after he had heard in detail about the powerful "contact man," the Senator said he hoped the California plan could become "a model for other states...
...Hinton lived in China, working first with a Protestant mission under UNRRA supervision, later for the Communists as an agricultural adviser. Since then, he has been touring the U.S. as a free-lance lecturer. Last week Hinton got a letter, enclosing a subpoena, from Indiana's Senator William Jenner. It said: Come to Washington and give the U.S. Senate "the benefit of your experience...
...Jenner: "That your answer might tend to incriminate...
...Loyal American?" Hinton concluded: "I feel certain that no government can hope to lead the Chinese into aggressive adventures abroad." The committee which had heard about aggressive adventures in Korea and Indo-China, was dumfounded. Later, Chairman Jenner, struck by Hinton's repeated mention of cooperation, asked: "Why don't you cooperate with this committee? Why don't you want to make us as happy as those people . . . in Communist China?" Hinton was hurt. "Look," he remonstrated, "I have not been accused of any crimes. I'm a perfectly loyal American citizen...