Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Modern Republicanism. Ike would have no more misgivings about backing Barry Goldwater than a Democratic President would have in endorsing Virginia's Harry Byrd. But Ike's struggle will come in swallowing some others in the 21, e.g., the party's three Senate Neanderthals, Molly, Jenner and Joe: i.e., Nevada's George W. Malone, Indiana's William Ezra Jenner and Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy. Both Malone and Jenner (who already is braying against Eisenhower Republicanism back home in Indiana) are considered unbeatable for Republican nomination. Only McCarthy, who is being looked upon with disdain...
...Indiana's Jenner, Nevada's Malone, Wisconsin's McCarthy...
...wrought-up Indianans marched into the Statehouse in Indianapolis last week to protest against a "right-to-work" bill passed, after long debate, by the Republican-dominated state legislature. After huddling with union delegates, Republican Governor Harold W. Handley, a protege of Indiana's Senator Bill Jenner, told them that though he disliked the bill himself, he would let it become law without his signature. When the crowd got the word, boos thundered in the Statehouse corridors, and demonstrators tried to push past the cops guarding the governor's office. Handley himself slipped away through a side exit...
...lieutenant governor when Archenemy George Craig held the statehouse reins, firmly took command of Indiana, called for "enlightened conservatism," sharply criticized federal aid to education ("The Hoosier will not tolerate nationalization of his schools"). Basking in Handley's new glow: Indiana's anti-Craig Senator William Jenner, who gave Handley a couple of helpful hands to office...
...Thruston Morton (who also got Post Office) and New York's Jack Javits (who also got Rules). Faring only slightly better, Kentucky's other Republican, former Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper, was awarded Labor and Rules. Yet to Indiana's Neanderthal Republican Bill Jenner, a second-termer, went the most coveted G.O.P. vacancy: a seat on the powerful, tax-patrolling Finance Committee...