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Show Fare 2 Thursday, May 15, 1958 THE DAILY RECORD AT ANNUAL CONFAB Medina Speech To Close Session Salt Lake City, Utah The general public has been Invited to hear the noted Judge Harold R. Medina address the closing business session of the 27th annual convention of the Utah State Bar Association, Friday, iMay 16. Announcement of the invitation to hear the retired U.S. District judge who became famous for his courage and pateince during the 1949 trial of the 11 Communist leaders, was made by Arthur A. Allen Jr., convention committee chairman. Judge Medina will speak on A Look at America" at 3:00 pm., Friday, May 16, in the Lafayette Ballroom in the Hotel Utah. John P. Frank will discuss luncheon at the 27th Annual Bar Convention in Salt Lake City. Frank To Speak On Lincoln Friday At Annual Confab Salt Lake City, Utah John P. Law Degree from the same uniFrank, Associate Professor of versity. He received his Doctor of Law, Yale Law School, will of Law (JSD) at Yale Universpeak at the 27th Annual Conven- sity in 1947. tion of the Utah Bar Association. After being admitted to pracA. Allen, Jr., chairman of the con- tice in Wisconsin in 1940. Mr. vention committee, announced re- Frank was Law Clerk to Justice Huge L. Black of the Sucently. Mr, Frank, who will speak on preme Court in 1942. Having Lincoln as a Lawyer, is the second speaker to be scheduled by the Bar Association. The convention is scheduled for May Sanford H. Kadish, Professor of Law, University of Utah Law School, has already been slated to speak on The Administration of Criminal Justice in the United States." Mr. Frank, a member of the firm of Lcwi3, Boos, Sceville and Beauchamp of Phonix, Arizona, received hi3 Bachelor of Art Degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1938. In 1940, he received his Master of Arts and 15-1- ! 6. worked with various government agencies from 1941 to 1946 and during the summer of 1949 and 1950, he practiced in Washington D. C. in the summer of 1947 and 1948. Mr. Frank was Assistant Professor of Law at Indiana University from 1946 to 1949 when he was appointed Associate Professor of Law at Yale in 1949. Mr. Frank is the author of Mr. Justice Black," and has written on a number of cases concerning the Constitution and Constitutional Law. He has been associated with ithe Phoenix law firm since 1955. Author of 15 books on federal jurisprudence and on pleading practice and evidence, Judge Medina was chosen Man of the Year," in 1949 by Associated Press newsmen in recognition of the manner in which he handled the trial of the Communist leaders. Harold R. Medina was bom in Broklyn, New York, February 16, 1888, attended Public School No 44 in Brooklyn, Holbrook Military Academy in Ossining, took highest honors in French on his graduation Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton in 1909 and won the Ordronneaux Prize for highest standing in his class on graduation from Columbia Law School in 1912. He now holds the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws Doctor of Letters, Doctor of Education, Doctor of Humane Letters, Doctor of Divinity, and Doctor of Civil Law from various universities, and is a Fellow of the American Asademy of Arts and Sciences. There never had been a lawyer on either side of his parents families and the struggle to get a foothold in the profession in the early days cosisted in working about 14 hours a day at all sorts of miscellaneous jobs. While he was a clerk in one of the large New York Law offices, he was writing articles and definitions of legal terms for the new International Encyclopedia, preparing a new edition of a lawyers manual, and the started his famous course of lectures preparing students to take the New York Bar exanination. On top of all tills he acepted a call from Harlan F. Stone, then Dean of Columbia Law School and later Chief Justice of the United States, to teach in Columbia Law School on a part-tim- e basis. His natural tendency .toward independence and led him to start his own small law office in 1918 and by the time he went on the bench in well-kno- self-relian- SUBSCRIPTION BLANK ce wn firm of Medina & of stenographers and miscellanehad grown to substantial ous assistants. proportions, with many partners At Columbia Law School, where and associates and a large group was Professor of Associate he Law, his principal subjects were Pleading and Practice and Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure, although he occasionally took over, when other professors were W ill, and taught Common Law Pleading, Wills and AdministraSalt Lake City, Utah Werdner Page Keeton, Dean and tion, Domestic Relations and EviProfessor of Law, University of dence. Texas School of Law, will speak Always principally engaged in at the 27th Annual Convention of court work, his professional the Utah State Bar Association to experience until in his 40s was be held at the Hotel Utah, May largely in the field of preparing to was announced it day by briefs and making arguments in Arthur A. Allen, Jr., chairman of appellate courts. In 1932, howthe convention committee. ever, when he was engaged in his first big criminal trial, the prosMr. Keeton, the third major ecution of the officers of the Bank speaker to be scheduled by the of the United States, it was found Bar Association, will speak on The Federal Tort Claims Act," that he had some talent for jury of Seavey, trials and a very considerable Mr. Keeton is Cases on part of his time in the next 10 Keeton and Keeton or 15 years was devoted to that Torts. particular type of trial work. The clock sort of Sanford H. Kadish, Professor continuous, round-th- e Law, University of Utah Law of work required for jury trials School, and John P. Frank, Assoc- made it necessary for him to iate Professor of Law, Yale Law give up both his teaching at ColSchool, have also been slated to umbia Law School and his bar class which, in address the .two-dlawyers con- examination vention. which, in the intervening years, had contributed to the legal trainMr. Keeton received both his of a very substantial proporBachelor of Arts and Bachelor of ing tion of those admitted to the Bar Law (LL.B) degrees from the in ithe State of New York. University of Texas in 1931. From When to his surprise and with1932 to 1935 he was Assistant out any political support whatProfessor of Law at .the University Medina was made a of Texas. He earned his Doctor of ever, Judge District Judge on Juridical Science Degree (SJ.D.) United1, States 1947, by President Truat Harvard Law School while on July was almost exclusively it man, leave of absence from 1935 to 1936. to due the pressure brought to Returning to the University of bear the various bar associaTexas, he was Associate Professor tion by and his elevation to the of Law from 1936 until becoming bench was acclaimed by editorials Professor of Law in 1939. From in New York Times and the the 1940 to 1942 he was Assistant Dean enNew York Herald-Tribuof the University of Texas. titled: A Judge Worth Waiting On leave of absence from 1942 for," and Superb Selection. to 1946, he served sucessively as Two of the cases by Judge chief counsel, Petroleum Branch, Medina as a District Judge, atDivision Counsel, Fuel Division, tracted wide attention. In 1949 and Price Executive of Petroleum he presided over the trial of the Branch of the Office of Price Ad- 11 Communist leaders and the efministration, Washington, D. C. forts of the defendants and their In 1946, he was appointed Assis- adherents to break-u- p the trial tant Chief of Petroleum Admini- and demonstrate that the Ameristration for War. can judicial process was unequal Communists After the war, he was appointed to the task of trying to advocate of conspiring Dean of the University of Okla- accused over-thro- w of the government the homa Law School. In 1949, he remade the and force violence, turned to the University of Texas. by case one of historic and internaA member of the Texas Bar tional interest. To a very conAssociation, American Bar Associ- siderable portion of the American ation, and Oklahoma Bar Associ- public today, Judge Medina is ation, Mr. Keeton was also a known as the patient judge," member of the Judicial Council as the result of his handling of the Communist leaders trial. Imof Oklahoma from 1946 to 1949. mediately after that, he entered Cases upon the trial of what is someIn addition to on Torts," Mr. Keeton was editor times described as the longest of Cases on Fraud and Mistake," anti-tru- st case in American juris- and has published articles in prudence, a civil antitrust action several law reviews. (Continued on Page 5) 1948, the Sher-pic- k TORT ACT TOPIC OF KEETON 15-1- 6, co-auth- or ay ne co-edit- ing Annual Subscription Rate $55.00 I I 1 What's What and Western Mineral Survey THE DAILY RECORD 421 Church St. Salt Lake City, Utah Voli. 1; No. 55 Publishers Editor Feature Editor Harry B. Miller and Richard Wesson Gentlemen: H. V. Wright L M Hill Kindly enter subscription to your publication for enclose year beginning with the next issue. subscription price. May 15, 1958 Salt Lake City, Utah OFFICE and PLANT 421 Church Street, Salt Lake City, Utah I Phone EMpire Published Daily (Except Sat. and Sun.) 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