Word: law
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 case...
...much money you make and that's how much you spend." By heeding his own warning, Attorney Medina had accumulated a comfortable fortune, built a fine summer home at Westhampton, N.Y., maintained a comfortable town apartment, sent his two sons, Harold Jr. and Standish, to Princeton and Columbia Law School, bought a 46-ft. cruiser and a string of sailboats, became an enthusiastic Princeton alumnus (class of '09) and had just about everything he wanted out of life. He had saved frugally for most of his working days. From 50 on he quit saving...
...himself "the life of a vegetable": up at 6, breakfast, drive to the courthouse with one of his bodyguards (he was closely guarded throughout the trial), work over law books until time for court, lunch in his chambers on spinach and one lamb chop (never any variation), nap for half an hour, back to court, back to his chambers for an hour's more work, thence to the Crystal Health Club for a workout, shower and massage, home at 7:15 for two Martinis apiece for wife Ethel and himself, dinner...
...trial than the one he had given the eleven Reds. Their resentment sprang from the fact that he had demonstrated a way to deal legally with the Communist Party in the U.S. The nation's highest courts would have to decide whether Medina's interpretation of the law was also constitutional...
...peaceful studies and discussions or teaching and advocacy in the realm of ideas you must acquit them . . . Do not be led astray by talk about thought control, or putting books on trial. No such issues are before you here. "But no one could suppose nor is it the law that any person has an absolute and unbridled right to say or to write and to publish whatever he chooses under any and all circumstances...