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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...
Former Social Relations research assistant Leon J. Kamin '48 was acquitted of similar charges...
...order to reach his decision in Kamin's case Aldrich had to examine McCarthy's statement that his committee had been investigating, not private industry, but the operation of government security regulations. After studying the testimony of the other members of McCarthy's investigating group and the content of McCarthy's hearings, the Judge ruled the Senator's contention "entirely insubstantial...
McCarthy also indicated he thought Furry's case a lost cause, at least in Judge Aldrich's "kangaroo court." Furry's case is so similar to Kamin's that the Aldrich opinion acquitting Kamin would probably serve as the basis for a Furry acquittal. McCarthy probably realized this in January, when he made his first attack on Aldrich...