Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator William E. Jenner's (R.-Ind.) Internal Security Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee will be coming to Boston within a month to begin hearings on subversives in New England colleges and universities, but according to committee sources, no Harvard faculty members will be questioned...
...Jenner said he wasn't singling out suspects "by colleges" with regard to any specific institutions in the Boston area. He explained the committee has been conducting hearings in areas in which there are enough "cases" to justify investigation...
...Jenner last night said he has been trying to avoid duplication of the work done by Representative Harold Velde's (R.-Ill.) House Un-American Activities Committee. Velde's committee has also been investigating selected ex-communists on college faculties, but has not yet announced plans to go on the road...
...Jenner said he told Velde "We were interested only in one phase of subversive activities in American education--the infiltration of high-level education by Communists, apparently in accordance with elaborate plans...
This week the subcommittee's report was on its way to the Republican-controlled Senate Rules Committee, which probably will be chairmaned by Indiana's William Jenner, no foe of McCarthy. There it will almost certainly gather dust...