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Named as winners of the New York Board of Trade's gold plaques for "Notable Service in the Preservation of Our Heritage of America": U.S. District Judge Harold Medina and Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz...
Chief judge of the U.S. court of appeals in New York and generally regarded by the legal profession as one of the country's soundest jurists, 78-year-old Judge Hand wrote a 23,000-word decision which upheld Judge Harold Medina, the constitutionality of the Smith Act,* and the conviction, under the act, of the Communist Party's eleven top officials (TIME, Oct. 24). If the Supreme Court justices follow where Medina and Hand have led -and their recent decision upholding the Taft-Hartley non-Communist oath indicates they will-the eleven will be fined...
...First Amendment would give them freedom to make "all preparatory steps and in the end the choice of initiative, dependent upon that moment when they believe us, who must await the blow, to be worst prepared to receive it" -an analysis which paralleled the analysis made by Judge Medina...
Backed by his colleagues, Judges Swan and Chase, he denied all the other objections raised by the eleven to the trial-the way the jury was selected, the kind of testimony and evidence admitted. The eleven had had a proper trial; if anything, the long-suffering Judge Medina, heckled and insulted by the Reds' lawyers, had leaned over backward to be just. "If at times he did not conduct himself with the imperturbability of a Rhadamanthus [he] showed considerably greater self-control and forbearance than it is given to most judges to possess...
...Supreme Court of the U.S. has yet to pass on Federal Judge Harold Medina's formula for handling the Communist Party. Seven months ago, in the trial of the party's top leaders, Judge Medina ruled: if it can be shown that a group of Reds is actually plotting to destroy the U.S. "at the earliest time that circumstances would permit," then the state has the right to deal with them, even to the extent of limiting free speech. Last week, in their opinions on another case, five Supreme Court justices sounded as if they might be going...