Word: medinae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come to this case," said Federal Judge Harold R. Medina 34 months ago, "without any knowledge of the investment banking business, but I intend to get my teeth into this matter." The court was soon wondering whether there was anything to chew on at all. For nearly three years, Medina fidgeted with ill-concealed impatience while Justice Department lawyers tried to prove that 17 big investment banks had conspired to monopolize the securities business through the syndicate system of negotiated bidding...
...prove their charge, the Government lawyers probed practices in the banking business dating back to the 1912 Pujo investigation of the "money trust." But, as exasperated Judge Medina pointed out repeatedly, they failed to produce a single instance of deliberate conspiracy. Finally, after 16 months, the Government got down to the key part of its case: an attempt to show that the bankers had invented the syndicate system in 1915. But one of the two Government witnesses, Harold L. Stuart, 72, head of Chicago's huge Halsey, Stuart & Co., directly contradicted the Government's contentions. He said that...
...agent (Glenn Ford) comes into possession of several old sheets of parchment which are a clue to a priceless treasure buried among the ruins. In practically no time, he finds himself mixed up with such shady characters as a fat invalid (Francis Sullivan), a raven-haired Latin beauty (Patricia Medina), an alcoholic blonde (Diana Lynn), a mysterious fellow with a crew cut and smoked glasses (Sean McGlory). The feverish chasing is punctuated with slugging and shooting. This sort of thing has been done better a number of times, but the scenery, shot on the spot in Mexico, is almost striking...
...Government's antitrust suit against 17 investment banking houses recessed for the summer last week, the 64 lawyers connected with the case totted up some vital statistics on themselves. Since the case went to trial in 1950 before Judge Harold Medina in Manhattan, seventeen children and three grandchildren have been born into the lawyers' families (all but three of them on the defense side...
Unless Judge Medina grants pending defense motions to dismiss the charges, the defense may take still another couple of years to present its case in the marathon trial. "Thus," speculated the New York Times last week, "the life expectancy of the judge, who in this case has already spent five years in pre-trial and trial proceedings, becomes another complicating factor in antitrust jurisprudence...