Word: medinae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paneled courtroom in Manhattan's Federal Court House last week, Judge Harold R. Medina peered down from his bench at an array of more than 30 lawyers. Pleasantly, he advised them: "Just lead me along like a child and explain to me how it works...
...Judge Medina, who had found out at the trial of the eleven Reds how the Communist Party works, this time faced a problem just as complex. He was sitting in judgment (without a jury) on the Government's long-awaited antitrust suit against 17 of the nation's top investment banking houses* and the Investment Bankers Association. It was the biggest trial in Wall Street's history. For three years the Government had rummaged through more than 10,000 documents, now planned to use 4,000 of them to support its chief charge that the defendants...
...That." In his opening address, portly, plodding Henry V. (for Vincent) Stebbins, special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, did his best to lead Medina through the intricacies of the Government's case. But over & over again came the patient complaints from the bench: "I don't get that," "I must be kind of stupid," "I don't understand...
Then he hits the jackpot. As his front lawn is piled high with cartons of soup, dressed beef, a grand piano, fruit trees and ponies, as a feline portrait painter (Patricia Medina) and a lacy interior decorator (Alan Mowbray) move in on him, Stewart plunges into a glassy-eyed nightmare that costs him his job, threatens his marriage, gets him clapped into jail...
Dignitaries at the game included Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall, British Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks, Judge Harold R. Medina, and Bertram Russell...