Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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August 1954: Senate, at height of battle over McCarthy censure, votes contempt citations against both Furry and Kamin...
Despite the testimony of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) Leon J. Kamin '48, a former teaching fellow and research assistant here, was acquitted by Judge Bailey Aldrich '28 on charges of contempt of Congress. Aldrich ruled that McCarthy's sub-committee had no authority to ask Kamin the six questions which he had refused to answer in a November, 1954, hearing...
...Like Whitman, he did not claim the refuge of the Fifth Amendment to protect himself against selfincrimination. Peck, a onetime staffer of the now defunct Communist-line New York Compass, simply refused to answer, despite the subcommittee's repeated warnings that he was risking a contempt citation...
...Getter. In Fond du Lac, Wis., fined $65 for reckless driving, Gerald W. Oelerich was tagged an additional $10 for contempt after he interrupted court proceedings to ask the judge: "You wouldn't lend me the money, would you, Your Honor...
Kamin, who has been a research associate at Queens since last June, had spent the weekend in Cambridge relaxing after he was cleared Thursday of all contempt of Congress charges. He also attended several jubilant celebrations of his acquittal...