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...clear blips came from Indiana. There, Republicans made "Tru-manism" an issue in municipal elections. Senator William E. Jenner cried that a vote for a Democratic mayor is a vote for the Truman Administration, for "Communists high in the State Department . . . crime and corruption in the Internal Revenue Bureau . . . creeping decay in every department of our national life." Result: Republicans won 73 of 103 Indiana cities, a gain of 25. In Indianapolis, Phillip L. Bayt, probably the best mayor in the city's history, was turned out by a Republican. Dozens of voters told Bayt they thought...
Indiana's Senator William Jenner finally got a provision in the federal tax increase bill to permit each state to make its own decision. Harry Truman charged that the Jenner amendment, "may well result in unwarranted publicity, and personal indignity and unhappiness for aged people and others receiving public assistance." But Truman signed the bill...
...Illinois, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Connecticut and Tennessee-were moving to open their relief rolls. The question of whether such publicity would do more good than harm could be argued interminably, but it was not necessarily a federal question, and the states had asserted their right to answer it. The Jenner amendment was one of the few eddies in the current of political power which for 19 years has flowed steadily in the direction of Washington...
...Signed by twenty-five Republican senators--Welker, Cain, Schoeppel, Knowland, Martin, Mundt, Ferguson, Jenner, Watkins, Flanders, Butler, Dworshak, Kem, Bennett, Dirksen, Brewster, Wiley, Capehart, Young, Case, Bridges, Hickenlooper, Bricker, Carlson, and Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin...
...first heady aftermath of MacArthur's speech, many a Republican chorused praise ("magnificent," "tremendous") without apparently realizing all that MacArthur had said. Indiana's irascible isolationist Senator William Jenner seemed to think that MacArthur had opposed military aid to Europe: "Ex-President Hoover and the Republicans in Congress bought us 85 precious days in their fight on troops to Europe. MacArthur has bought us another, perhaps a final chance, to destroy the Administration's proCommunist, pro-Socialist foreign policy." Ohio's Senator Robert Taft, who had understood what he heard, announced that "I have long approved...