Word: kamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After conferences between the judge, Kamin, and lawyers for both sides, the court met at 3:45 p.m. after a recess of nearly three hours. Kamin's attorney, Calvin P. Bartlett, immediately moved for a mistrial and the motion was granted after Kamin asked for it personally...
...trial, without a jury, is considered more favorable to Kamin. Judge Aldrich will now hear questions of fact and rule on legal matters...
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy yesterday took the stand in the contempt of Congress trial of Leon J. Kamin '49 and testified he had called Kamin before his subcommittee as part of a wide investigation of subversion in defense installations...
McCarthy said he had hoped Kamin, as "a press organizer, and a paid member of the Communist party" would have been able to reveal the names of Communists in defense plants. Such names were essential for "the full picture" of Communist infiltration the Senate needed before framing laws, he said...
...government was attempting to establish the subcommittee's authority to ask the questions Kamin refused to answer in January 1954. Assistant U.S. Attorney John M. Harrington, Jr. introduced documents on the McCarthy subcommittee's history and asked the Senator and Cohn to describe the events which led up to Kamin's being called to testify...