Word: jenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bargain-Counter Security. While Douglas labored, the Senate debate continued. "If the members of Congress have a shred of courage and patriotism left," said Indiana's Isolationist William E. Jenner, "they will lay down an ultimatum to the President demanding either a declaration of war or the bringing back of American G.I.s to home shores." Cried Fellow Isolationist George Malone of Nevada: "We should withdraw General Eisenhower from his military headquarters in Europe...
...Horrifying Hoax." These were reasonable objections by responsible men. Less responsible Republicans leaped in to the assault. Indiana's William Jenner jauntily took the floor and let loose a raging, spluttering diatribe...
William E. Jenner, Republican from Indiana, who is devoid of influence among his colleagues and partisan-minded to the last brain cell. He recently implied that the H-bomb was part of a Democratic plot to wipe out civilization. Jenner's political vision is too myopic to win him classification even as a nationalist-he seems to think that the world consists only of the state of Indiana and that small patch of Chicago which holds up Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune Tower. So intense were Jenner's isolationist views when he returned from a worldwide senatorial...
Waspish, 41-year-old Bill Jenner is a small man to use the Senate office chambers once occupied by the late great George W. Norris...