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...Senate itself that morning, Indiana's G.O.P. Senator William Jenner took the floor to defend McCarthy. Pretending that the six members of the Watkins committee were exclusively responsible for the charges against Joe, Jenner cried in injured tones: "Now 96 Senators from all 48 states are obliged to take time they should spend in their constituencies to come here and decide the issue raised by a few members." He neglected to add that 75 Senators-including Jenner-had voted to make the Watkins committee the Senate's agent in considering charges against McCarthy...
...election Problems. Bill Jenner was in rare form. He quoted John Stuart Mill, Edmund Burke and Martin Dies. He roared in a voice obviously intended to be heard all the way back in Indiana. He stomped his pointed shoes. He held out his hands and quivered his fingertips. The Watkins committee, he shouted, came close "to recommending the punishment of a member of this body for fighting an alien conspiracy to destroy our nation...
...attention was distracted from Jenner's floor show by a note sent to the press gallery by South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case, a Watkins committee member. Case (who is up for re-election in 1956 in a state where McCarthy has powerful political friends) had suddenly changed his mind about censuring Joe for abusing Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker. Case said he had just learned that the Army had honorably discharged Irving Peress the day after receiving a warning letter from McCarthy. Case's switch came despite the fact that the Peress chronology had been public...
Describing to the audience how the University reacted to the charges of Communist infiltration, President Pusey said that last spring the Corporation "made an intensive study" and "found four persons on whom suspicion had been cast" by the Jenner and Velde Congressional committees...
...83rd Congress, such as revision of the Taft-Hartley Law and a realistic immigration policy. More important, they will be able to organize both Houses--to replace as majority leaders such arch-isolationists as Senator William Knowland and Representative Joseph Martin. And publicity-happy demagogues like McCarthy, Jenner, and Velde will lose their chairmanships. The security program would proceed with more sense and less sensation. Two years ago, the Republicans came into office saying it was "time for a change." The nation has seen the change; for most of its citizens it has been a change for the worse...