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...definite date for resuming the contempt of Congress trial of Leon J. Kamin'49 has been set, it was learned yesterday...
Calvin P. Bartlett and John L. Saltonstall, Jr.'38, Kamin's attorneys, said last night they had no specific information about the reason for the indefinite postponement or when it might, end, but added they hoped for news soon...
Placed in the unfamiliar hair shirt of sworn oaths and cross-examinations, the Senator made some interesting statements. He admitted that his investigating subcommittee kept no records of its executive sessions and that it called Kamin in 1954 without any written evidence at all. It seems that McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and Francis Carr ran the committee by a casual gentlemen's agreement under which a tip that some person had worked on a Government project, if it looked juicy enough, might lead to a subpoena and to blanket questions like, "Who else worked with you?" This is exactly what liberals...
From the time when the United States Senate voted to censure Joe McCarthy until the contempt trial of Leon Kamin this week, the Wisconsin Senator's rasping voice was noticeably silent. This week, McCarthy was back at the old stand, flinging accusations of softness toward Communism at his perennial favorites, Harvard and Nathan Pusey. This time, however, the attacks lacked some of their steam. Joe McCarthy was in a courtroom, not out on the hustings, and the atmosphere seems to have affected his vitriol...
Both the prosecution and defense asked McCarthy why he had questioned Kamin about whether he knew any Communists at the University. To both he replied that he thought "Harvard was doing a lot of defense work...