Word: medinae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alexander Bittelman, Russian-born party theoreticians; Pettis Perry, one of U.S. Communism's chief apostles to Harlem. They were the fourth batch of J.S. Reds to be convicted under the 1940 Smith Act. First came the 1949 marathon trial of eleven top Communist leaders that made Judge Harold Medina famous. In 1952, six lesser Red lights were convicted in Baltimore, 14 in Los Angeles. Last week upholding the Smith Act for the second time, the U.S. Supreme Court refused 7-2, to review the Baltimore convictions...
...reserve champion of the American Royal Show in Kansas City. Last week his owner, C. A. Smith of West Virginia's Hillcrest Farms, sold a half interest in Larry Domino to E. C. McCormick, an Ohio insurance executive and owner of McCormick Hereford Farms in Medina. The price: $105,000, the largest sum ever paid for half a bull...
...accomplished so far? The visible party is in worse shape today than it has been in 30 years. Items: ¶Virtually the entire known leadership is in trouble with the law. Eleven members of the twelve-man national committee were convicted in 1949, at the marathon trial before Judge Medina, of conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. Government. Of the eleven, eight are in jail; three jumped bail and are still fugitives. The party's nominal boss, William Z. Foster, 71, is under indictment. Last year 21 members of the Communist second team were indicted, including Elizabeth Gurley Flynn...
Even before getting his degree, young Medina had found himself bored with the law. And so, between classes and cases, he studied bugs. He discovered the insect Congrophora Medinae, wrote about vampire legends, and in his spare time transated Evangeline into Spanish. Then, in 1874, he was appointed secretary to the Chilean legation in Lima, Peru. There, just "to kill time," he took up history and literature...
...known to almost every major library on both sides of the Atlantic. Wherever he went, he dug deep into yellowed archives, and in Seville's Archives of the Indies alone, he unearthed 700 bundles of documents that no one had known about. Out of all these explorations. Medina became interested in writing bibliographies, establishing the location and writing the description of thousands of books and documents concerned with South American history, As his volumes poured forth, Don J.T. gradually earned a new title: "the greatest bibliographer in Christendom...