Word: kamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brief, calm hearing, Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, and Leon J. Kamin '49, research assistant in psychology at McGill University, pleaded not guilty yesterday in Federal District Court to charges of contempt of the United States Senate...
...Boston, Harvard's Dr. Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of physics, and ex-Communist Leon J. Kamin, 26, onetime Harvard teaching fellow, were indicted for contempt of the U.S. Senate, i.e., for refusing to answer questions put by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's subcommittee last winter (TIME...
While considered one of the "brightest young men" in the department, Kamin would not have been hired here since Social Relations prefers to get its instructors and assistant professors from outside. Since he got his Ph.D. in March he would not have been able to continue as a teaching fellow or research assistant and thus would have been compelled to look for work elsewhere. After some difficulty he has secured a position at another university...
...Kamin was told by a member of the administration that his use of the Fifth Amendment would make any chance of his reappointment here unlikely. He has secured a job at another university for next year...
...Corporation had earlier called both Furry's and Kamin's use of the Fifth Amendment "misconduct" but not "grave misconduct" but not "grave misconduct" necessary for dismissal...