Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...Wisconsin Senator appeared in the corridors outside Judge Bailey Aldrich's courtroom several times Tuesday morning while the jury was being selected. He was applauded vigorously by spectators each time...
...Wisconsin Senator denied any intent to investigate the University "as an educational institution." He said he left that to the Internal Security and House Un-American Activities Committee. "We were interested in Harvard because it was doing a lot of defense work...
Their first witness may be Senator McCarthy. The Wisconsin Senator was the major government witness in last week's contempt trial of author O'Connor. His testimony here will probably be similar to the defense of his committee's authority he delivered against O'Connor...
Assistants for the two other Republican Senators who have been asked to appear, Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, and Charles E. Potter of Michigan, said yesterday that both would definitely be in Boston Tuesday...