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When Senator McCarthy refused last week to appear in Judge Bailey Aldrich's courtroom for the pending trial of Professor Wendell Furry, the Senator said he wanted to avoid giving Judge Aldrich a chance to repeat the "insult" he delivered to the Senate by refusing to uphold its contempt citation against Leon J. Kamin. The bitterness with which McCarthy accused the Judge of a lack of objectivity in "communist" cases, however, made it seem likely that the Wisconsin Senator was concerned more with his own dignity than that of the Senate, and was anxious to avoid a setback similar...
McCarthy's decision may force government lawyers to call off the prosecution of Furry, whose trial has been scheduled for May 21. Judge Aldrich's withdrawal from the case is most unlikely, and McCarthy would have been the government's key witness...
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy announced Wednesday he will refuse to testify at the pending contempt-of-Congress trial of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, unless Judge Bailey Aldrich '28 withdraws from the case...
...strongest language he has yet employed since Judge Aldrich acquitted former Social Relations research assistant Leon J. Kamin '48 of similar charges Jan. 5, McCarthy told the Senate that "in Judge Aldrich's kangaroo court, the government has not the slightest hope of obtaining a conviction...
...Calling Aldrich "a demonstrably incompetent judge," the Wisconsin Senator said his "past conduct proves that he will not rule fairly and objectively in a Communist case." He added that Aldrich's refusal to uphold the Senate's contempt citation was an insult. He said, "We should not give him an opportunity to insult the Senate again...