Word: medinae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Since the famous trial of the eleven top U.S. Communists in 1949, over which he presided, Judge Medina has been much in the public eye. His personal appearances, to receive an honorary degree, make a speech or grace a platform, have kept him there. He is still having to hold his temper in check during the Government's antitrust suit against 17 investment banking houses, now in its 14th month...
HAROLD RAYMOND MEDINA was born in 1888 in Brooklyn...
...acre family country place at Westhampton, L.I. Until 1938, the Westhampton place was known as "To Windward." After the hurricane of that year, the place was re-christened "Still to Windward." The main house was rebuilt in ampler proportions, two houses for the sons, a house for Judge Medina's mother, a remodeled library, a boathouse and numerous outbuildings. It is a family playground, now less elaborately maintained than it was, for in 1947 Harold Medina gave up a law practice of $100,000 a year to serve as federal judge at a salary...
Later, when Young appealed for protection against defense insinuations about his credibility, Medina snapped that the witness has no right to "show indignation to a United States judge." Furthermore, Medina took a dim view of Young's boast that he was often successful in taking his case to the public through full-page newspaper ads. "This is a courtroom," warned Medina, "and there will be no appealing to the public over the head of the judge . . . You are only a witness...
After scrapping with Young for seven days, Medina decided that Young was more like a newspaper columnist who "colors things up," than a witness who could prove the Government's case. Anyway, said Medina, he would certainly take Young's "hell-raising propensities" into account when he evaluated his testimony...