Word: medinae
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...excitement was stirred up by tiny Banderillera Angelina Medina, whose sobriquet is La Pulga (Flea). Having done a passable job of sticking her paper-twined darts into the bull, Angelina suddenly realized that the beast was coming after her. She turned to scramble over the wooden barrier...
...That." In his opening address, portly, plodding Henry V. (for Vincent) Stebbins, special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, did his best to lead Medina through the intricacies of the Government's case. But over & over again came the patient complaints from the bench: "I don't get that," "I must be kind of stupid," "I don't understand...
...Judge Medina pounced on that. What was wrong, asked he, with the same firms getting the same business? Don't many people keep the same doctor for years because he is a good doctor...
...defendants set the price of new securities: fixing the price at which they bought the securities from the issuer, and then setting a noncompetitive price at which they sold them to other dealers and investors. As far as Stebbins could see, the investment bankers couldn't lose. Snapped Medina: "I don't see how else [they] could do it. [They] certainly would not . . . make a deal in which [they were] sure to lose money...
When Stebbins tried to make something of the fact that the defendants had fought against the SEC campaign to sell railroad and public utility securities at competitive bidding (TIME, March 25, 1940 et seq.) rather than at negotiated sale, Medina broke in sharply. What was wrong with that? he asked. What Stebbins was saying, said Medina, was that if you don't agree with the Government you ought "to keep your mouths shut ... It seems to me ... we are right on the brink of some form of totalitarianism...