Word: medinae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convicted leaders of the Communist Party were also given at least a few more weeks to thrash around, untrammeled. Although Party Boss Eugene Dennis was already in jail for contempt of Congress, the other ten Reds convicted in Judge Medina's court of violating the Smith Act have been free on appeal bail for almost a year. Last week Supreme Court Justice Jackson turned down a Government request that the ten be jailed immediately as dangerous to the public welfare...
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...