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Briefs supporting motions to dismiss contempt of Congress indictments against Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, and Leon J. Kamin '49, research assistant in Psychology at McGill, were filed in Federal District Court yesterday afternoon...
Lawyers for Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, and Leon J. Kamin '49, former research assistant in Social Relations, will present briefs today supporting a motion to dismiss the contempt of Congress indictments returned against their clients in December...
...when the Barbary pirates were practicing the annoying custom of preying on American shipping, Hamilton had completed his retreat. He expressed contempt for the idea that American vessels had only the right of self-defense, unless Congress formally declared war. He now put the case clearly: "When a foreign nation declares or openly and avowedly makes war upon the United States, they are then by the very fact already at war, and any declaration on the part of Congress is nugatory; it is at least unnecessary...
Flustered McCarthy cited Lamont for contempt of Congress, and he was later indicted. The Senator had not expected this challenge, for the Lamont he had been grilling was the indifferent Lamont, who had written two years earlier, in connection with charges of Communism, "I was getting very bored with it all. I swore to myself that I was not going to spend the rest of my life denying silly stories that I was a Communist. Such accusations have always seemed so fantastic that I tended to laugh them off, to deny them intermittently, or to take refuge in the well...
...when he picketed strikes 20 years ago, Lamont's concern is not for his personal safety. "I am glad to risk a year in jail in attempting to win a judicial decision properly limited the scope of Congressional committees." the Court has not yet given a ruling on contempt of Congress has not yet given a ruling on contempt of congress caused by reliance on the First Amendment. Lamont hopes his case will produce this ruling...