Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Senator Jenner felt the dangers of Federal encroachment in education to be so great that the original version of the bill passed by the Senate included an amendment excluding the State of Indiana (later struck out by the House) it would be patently silly for this University to adopt such an attitude. The administration of the funds is specifically left to each recipient institution and an amendment to alter this arrangement was defeated on the floor of Congress. It has, moreover, accepted money under National Defense contracts in the past. Acceptance now in no way compels acceptance...
POLITICS : Democrat Harry Truman, appearing at the National Press Club last week, had explained his estranged relationship with Ike this way: "I gave him hell when he didn't knock [Indiana's now-retiring Republican Senator] Jenner off the platform after he called General Marshall a traitor.* He's been mad at me ever since-and I don't give a damn." Said the President: "I think that most of you have found that I have had a little bit too much sense to waste my time getting mad at anybody . . . And to say that...
...Senate speech Jenner called World War II General George Catlett Marshall a "front man for traitors." Two years later, during the 1952 presidential campaign, Ike, who had consistently expressed his high admiration of Marshall, appeared on the same platform with Jenner, included him in a blanket endorsement of Indiana G.O.P. candidates...
Democrat Vance Hartke took over the Senate seat vacated by the retiring Republican Sen. Edward Jenner by defeating Republican Harold Handley...
Indiana: Running for the seat of retiring William Jenner, Republican Governor Harold Handley, 48, onetime coal shoveler (at 25? an hour) and former (1953-56) lieutenant governor, is in the hot seat. Issues: unemployment (mostly around South Bend), high taxes (raised in 1957), highway scandals (during the administration of Handley's predecessor, George Craig), right-to-work (last fortnight Handley went all out for right-to-work). Handley is throwing the book at his opponent, Evansville Mayor R. (for Rupert) Vance Hartke, 39, accusing him of running a corrupt administration in his home town and of being a tool...