Word: jenner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...moment the Jenner bill fell into the hopper, the Craig forces' strategy was clear: delay. Enough delay might produce, one of two desirable results: 1) suffocate the bill, or 2) hold it in the legislature so long that Craig could veto it after the legislators had reached their 61-day constitutional deadline, and had gone home...
...When the Jenner forces tried to rush the bill out of the Roads Committee, Conrad demanded a public hearing. Later, he asked for a second hearing before the whole senate ("The public has a right to know"), and proposed that New York financial experts be called to testify. When Jenner men moved to hold that hearing immediately, he had the New York experts tipped off to be unavailable for a while...
Eventually, the Craig forces had to let a toll-road restriction bill pass the senate. But it was watered down to a thinness almost acceptable to the Craig administration. Lieutenant Governor Harold W. Handley, the key Jenner lieutenant, complaining that his forces should have been rougher in the fight, cracked: "But, you know how it is; there are always a few boys who don't really know the score, and so they want to be fair...
...Said Craig Floor Leader John Feighner: "This is more than a road problem. There are a lot of legal problems involved. And there are some clear-thinking men on that committee." Hardly anyone in the Statehouse missed the point: the Roads Committee was evenly divided between Craig men and Jenner men; but among the members of Judy B, the Craig forces had a comfortable majority...
...last year of law school, he married his high-school sweetheart, Kathryn Heiliger (they have a son and a daughter), and graduated with a bachelor of law degree in 1932. A big campus politician in the same graduating class, but not a close friend of Craig's: Bill Jenner...