Word: kamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aldrich, in acquitting Kamin, said the McCarthy committee did not have the right to investigate subversion in defense plants, ostensibly the reason that Kamin and Furry were summoned...
...further background on the Furry and Kamin cases, see today's special supplement, page S-Six, which was printed earlier in the week, before yesterday's government announcement...
Furry follows Leon J. Kamin '48, former research assistant in Social Relations, as the second Harvard man to be freed from contempt of Congress charges. Kamin was acquitted by Judge Bailey Aldrich '28 in January...
...Furry dismissal yesterday was seen by observers as another defeat for Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his 1952-54 Permanent Investigating Sub-Committee. This was the committee, led by McCarthy, which questioned both Furry and Kamin in 1953 and 1954 about their alleged Communist affiliations...
Actually, the government's decision to ask for dismissal of the charges against Furry was not a surprise move. After Kamin was freed in January, most observers were sure that the Furry charges would also be dropped. Both Kamin and Furry were indicted by Congress for refusing to tell the McCarthy committee virtually the same things...