Word: jenner
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...others: Chairman Milton S. Eisenhower, Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York City, Senator Philip Hart, Judge A. Leon Higginbotham and Psychiatrist Walter Menninger. The majority included Senator Roman Hruska, Congressmen Hale Boggs and William M. McCulloch, Author Eric Hoffer, Attorneys Leon Jaworski and Albert Jenner Jr. and Judge Ernest W. McFarland...
...Pincus Pills." Probably no single name will be forever linked with the pills, as is Jenner's with vaccination. The search for medically useful knowledge nowadays goes along parallel lines at many places, often with a team working at each center. But Physiologist Gregory Pincus of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology and Gynecologist John Rock of Harvard University rate high among the pioneers of oral contraception. It was at Harvard, too, that Dr. Fuller Albright noted in the mid-1940s that an excess of estrogen* in the bloodstream soon after the end of menstruation somehow prevented ovulation...
...Felix Frankfurter and James M. Landis at the Law School, and warmly supported the New Deal. In later years he helped organize the Massachusetts chapter of Americans for Democratic Action, chaired the United Labor Committee of Massachusetts, and campaigned against Red-hunting Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and William Jenner of Indiana...
...unreality deepened when Albert Jenner, present chairman of the same committee, disclosed that in 1933 Morrissey went to Georgia, where it was then possible for a resident to gain admission to the bar without an examination. Morrissey, then 23, had already dropped out of law school in Massachusetts, had a try at the bar exam nonetheless, and failed it. In Athens, Morrissey obtained a Georgia diploma from a two-man outfit, now defunct, called the Southern Law School. Jenner called it a "diploma mill." Armed with this credential and testimonials from both of his teachers, Morrissey was admitted to practice...
...near as we can determine," Jenner concluded, "Morrissey returned to Boston either the night of the 8th or the morning of the 9th of September." Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen observed: "If you allege that you live in one state for the purpose of being admitted to the bar, and you're not [a resident]-there's a rather unpleasant word for that. It bothers me." Oddly enough, Morrissey, the Justice Department and Teddy Kennedy's office had all neglected to inform the Judiciary Committee of Morrissey's educational foray in Georgia...