Word: medinae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...other often-discussed matters the Court also backed decisions of lower magistrates. The Justices refused to review the case of three men sentenced for contempt by Judge Medina in the New York Communist trial. And they upheld a Maryland Appellate decision which overruled a Baltimore Court's action in barring newspaper publication of certain types of crime news. But they reversed a decision by Judge Shaw of Chicago which held the 1949 Rent Control Act unconstitutional...
...dispossessed their only hope." He joined Henry Wallace's Progressive Party, lent his name and prestige to other Communist-front organizations. He was a sponsor of the Communist-inspired Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, spoke up for the eleven Communist leaders convicted in Judge Harold Medina's court. For a while his name made headlines. But recently, on leave from Harvard, he had been silent, busy with a new book on Theodore Dreiser...
Francis is abetted by Patricia Medina, who plays some sort of spy. Miss Medina wears a shoddy French accent and not much else. She brightens up the Burma landscape considerably...
...also complained that until the time of Judge Medina's charge to the jury, the meaning of "wilfully and knowingly" in the indictment was unclear...