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Senator Joseph R. McCarthy charged on the Senate floor in Washington yesterday that Judge Bailey Aldrich's reluctance to sign a Massachusetts non-Communist affidavit last summer indicated prejudice against Congressional investigations of communism and made the Judge "manifestly unqualified" to try the case of Leon J. Kamin...
Recommending that the Justice Department appeal Aldrich's acquittal of Kamin on Jan. 5, McCarthy also suggested that the Senate Judiciary Committee investigate the case...
...Wisconsin senator said Judge Aldrich had at first refused "on principle" to sign the required affidavit after Governor Christian A. Herter '15 had reappointed him a Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals trustee last August...
McCarthy, confused about the relations of Aldrich and Kamin to the University (he thought Aldrich an overseer and Kamin a professor) termed the ruling "ridiculous to the point of being ludicrous." He suggested that impeachment be considered. When the trial began in November he had said he thought Judge Aldrich "would try the case well...
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...