Word: leone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These are some of the important events in the cases of Leon J. Kamin and Wendell H. Furry...
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...
...early history, the French Socialist Party alternately feuded and fused with its Communist rivals. The present party was born in 1920, when Leon Blum rebelled against accepting direction from the Kremlin. By 1936 the Socialists had 149 seats in the Assembly, and Blum's Popular Front government ruled France with Communist support. The two parted angrily over the Hitler-Stalin pact, made up when Hitler's invasion of Russia made resistance fighters of them all, stayed uneasy friends until Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier threw the Communists out of his government...
...give young Mollet enough schooling to qualify him as a professor of literature. An early and militant Socialist, the young professor was soon fired for political activity, became secretary of the CGT teachers' union. After serving gallantly in the Socialist underground. Mollet caught the eye of the aging Leon Blum, soon was secretary-general of the Socialist Party...
...Leon J. Kamin '48 left Boston by plane last night despite freezing rains to return to his teaching duties at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. With him were his wife and five-month-old son, John...