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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Essence of Justice. The day before the verdict, Judge Harold Medina (rhymes with arena) had given the jury a long and careful charge. It was a model of lucidity, enlivened by the kind of homely advice which the astute Medina has made a legal stock in trade. "If you once get yourself in a frame of mind where you know that you have a task ahead and it has to be done carefully and it has to be done just right," he said, rocking gently back & forth beneath the Stars & Stripes and the Great Seal of the United States, "then...
...career as a practicing attorney. He left Tuttle's firm to go on his own. ("Anyone dropping a nickel near me was taking a chance.") He got into appeals work and until 1931 did nothing else. In the appellate division he argued 1,400 cases covering every imaginable kind of law from bastardy to bankruptcy. His first trial case was in 1931 when he defended young Herbert Singer, of the Bank of United States. He won Singer's freedom finally on an appeal. For the next 14 years, as a trial lawyer, he did not lose a single...
...reason for most human ills. "He began," one writer said, "tracking down scientific clues like a detective on the trail of a mass murderer." In World War II an Orr survey provided the basis for British food rationing. He never stopped lecturing people on eating the right kind of food; once he complained that he could get farmers interested in feeding their animals properly "but I canna get them interested in the food of their ain bairns, far less in the bairns of ither folks...
From the government's point of view, there was a hitch. It was impossible without special parliamentary legislation, said the Ministry of Supply, to ban one kind of slot machine without banning them all. A machine built to sell candy bars could just as easily sell contraceptives provided they were wrapped in the same package. Besides, said the ministry, slot machines of all types were an important item in Britain's export program...
Most Hated. For his kind of peace, Laureano was prepared to fight with the government's full power. Even before the convention began, an old Laureano henchman took over the key Interior ministry from a non-political army officer. Two Laureano men assumed governorships, more were ticketed for other crucial states. The Liberals in Congress countered with a law allowing citizens to vote anywhere. This would enable Liberals to vote in other towns if run out of their homes in Conservative-bossed villages...