Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Harvard's Dr. Helen Deane Markham, assistant professor of anatomy, refused last March to tell the Jenner subcommittee whether or not she was a Communist, she appeared to some liberals to be a courageous champion of academic freedom. The Corporation of Harvard University, after questioning her on its own, concluded that Anatomist Markham was in fact no Red. It tagged her with "misconduct" for hiding behind the Fifth Amendment, but decided not to fire her (TIME, June 1). Last week the Corporation was forced to reconsider...
...course there is no absolute ethical command: 'Thou shalt always obey every law.' But there is a presumption in favor of obeying law. Strongly opposed as I am to McCarthyism, I am compelled to support the legitimacy of congressional investigations. I think the Jenner and Velde committees are doing rather more harm than good by their present inquiries, but the plain truth is that they are not as yet conducting a general fishing expedition into ideas and beliefs. They are questioning comparatively few teachers about their primary loyalties...
...Open Way. Einstein's Theory for Intellectuals touched off an immediate controversy. "An enemy of America!" snorted Senator Joe McCarthy. Indiana's Senator Jenner, who is conducting the senatorial investigations into the education field, mildly remarked that 85 educators have already refused to deny membership in "the Communist organization...
...wooden railroad coaches showing a train of coffin-shaped cars rounding a bend of track) to his poignant chronicle of the Depression (a beaten, slumped worker standing in front of a soup kitchen-"One Person Out of Ten") and his savage jabs at the Republican campaign (McCarthy, Cain and Jenner waiting at the stage entrance to go on in a show called "Ike's Crusade"), Fitz has drawn with power and simplicity...
...Senators Humphrey & Jenner...