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...last week to appear in Judge Bailey Aldrich's courtroom for the pending trial of Professor Wendell Furry, the Senator said he wanted to avoid giving Judge Aldrich a chance to repeat the "insult" he delivered to the Senate by refusing to uphold its contempt citation against Leon J. Kamin. The bitterness with which McCarthy accused the Judge of a lack of objectivity in "communist" cases, however, made it seem likely that the Wisconsin Senator was concerned more with his own dignity than that of the Senate, and was anxious to avoid a setback similar to the one he suffered...
...caustic treatment received by the Senator at the hands of Kamin's attorneys last fall, and Judge Aldrich's ruling that McCarthy had clearly overstepped the legal authority of the Government Operations Committee he headed in 1953-54, have already been discussed at length in this newspaper. What has not been discussed, since it only appears through re-reading Aldrich's decision, is that the Judge chose to believe McCarthy on small points and completely disagreed with him on large ones...
...strongest language he has yet employed since Judge Aldrich acquitted former Social Relations research assistant Leon J. Kamin '48 of similar charges Jan. 5, McCarthy told the Senate that "in Judge Aldrich's kangaroo court, the government has not the slightest hope of obtaining a conviction...
...Kamin Acquitted...
...question of dropping the indictments against Furry was raised when Judge Bailey Aldrich '28 acquitted Leon J. Kamin '48, former instructor in Social Relations, also charged with contempt for refusing to answer questions about his associates on the same grounds as Furry had used...