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These bills have been drawn up and supported in committee hearings by State Senator Jack B. Tenney of Los Angeles and his committee on un-American activities. Both Tenney and the legislation he is fighting for are the subjects of a stiff controversy throughout the state...
...summaries. Emerson (H) defeated Coburn (T), 3-2; Ladd (T) defeated Morris (H) 3-1; Ashley (H) defeated Williams (T), 3-1; Tenney (T) defeated Richardson (H), 3-2; Harding (H) defeated Banter...
...board and soon persuaded the board to oust Miss Seeds from her city-owned buildings. But other parents rallied to Miss Seeds's support. When left-wingers gave Miss Seeds some unsought backing, she found herself before California's Legislative Committee on un-American Activities. Chairman Jack Tenney asked her to explain her classroom approach to Russia. Miss Seeds said that her pupils studied Russian costumes, homes and farming. "You mean collective farming?" asked Chairman Tenney. Replied Miss Seeds: "That's all they have." She was cleared of being "un-American...
...chatty Boston Evening Journal offered its readers this one-paragraph scoop on the first full-dress demonstration of anesthesia. The show had been shrewdly staged by publicity-wise, 27-year-old Dentist William Thomas Green Morton and a Journal reporter named Albert Tenney. Dr. Morton's "preparation," fed to the patient through a tube from a corked flask, was ether, disguised with aromatic essences to hide the "secret." The operation, conducted by Dr. John Collins Warren, frock-coated chief surgeon of Massachusetts General Hospital, made a profound impression on doctors and medical students in the small, gloomy amphitheater. Cried...
Page One treatment for attending a champagne-&-blini party (for visiting Russian literary lion Konstantin Simonov) aboard a Soviet tanker off the California coast. Before the week was out, California Senator Jack B. Tenney had promised "a full-dress investigation"-"to learn whether there is a collaboration with potential enemies of our country...