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...Regular Formula. Medina warned defense witnesses that they might be jailed for contempt if they refused to answer proper questions, cut them off sharply when they plunged into shrill attacks on Wall Street, the Ku Klux Klan or the Atlantic pact. "This trial would go on for an indefinite period if I received all the evidence offered every time two Communists talked to each other," he said...
Even the major parties grew shrill in their attacks on each other. Last week, in Frankfurt's Römerberg Square, Socialists and Christian Democrats matched principles and lung power. As pink, plump Dr. Ludwig Erhard, the Christian Democrats' free-enterprising economic boss of Bizonia, started to speak, Socialist hecklers broke into a chorus: "Liar-liar-liar, we are jobless!" Cried Erhard: "I remain confident of the energy and determination of the German people . . . What we need is optimism, not control." This time, cheers drowned out the hecklers...
...often-turbulent years as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's editorial page, he has assailed, annoyed and angered many a judge, politician and businessman. Sometimes his editorial trumpeting was in the best crusading tradition of the Post-Dispatch; at other times, it was shrill...
...tired of each other and dead tired of Majority Leader Scott Lucas' heavyhanded efforts to keep things moving. The nation's highest deliberative body was debating whether to extend ECA for 15 months. Oregon's Wayne Morse, always one of the quickest to anger, rose in shrill complaint...
Federal Judge Harold Medina, whose silken calm has carried him successfully through weeks of shrill legal heckling, addressed himself to 16 solemn citizens of New York last week...