Word: kamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democratic victory in 1954 McCarthy was just another minority member of the Senate Committee on Government Operations; he has never been much disposed to provide newspaper copy for another man's headlines. On the legal front, he lost two important decisions in the acquittal of Corliss Lamont and Leon Kamin on contempt of Congress charges...
November 2, 1955: After government rests its case, Judge Aldrich acquits Kamin on two counts of his indictment...
January 2, 1956: Judge Aldrich acquits Kamin on all six counts. Government says it does not know what action it will take in Furry's case...
McCarthy, confused about the relations of Aldrich and Kamin to the University (he thought Aldrich an overseer and Kamin a professor) termed the ruling "ridiculous to the point of being ludicrous." He suggested that impeachment be considered. When the trial began in November he had said he thought Judge Aldrich "would try the case well...
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...