Word: bail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight in Manhattan Federal agents arrested stubby, mild-mannered John Torrio, Chicago's No. i racketeer in the early 1920's and Al Capone's onetime boss, for an ordinary revenue law violation (TIME, May 4). Bail was set at a supposedly prohibitive $100,000. Last week a plump, elderly woman walked into Manhattan's U. S. District Court, dipped deep into her black purse, pulled out a fat wad of bills, carefully peeled off 97 crisp $1,000 bills, four $500 bills, ten $100 bills. A gaping clerk counted them, recounted them, made...
...White Plains, N. Y. post office as he appeared to collect it. Unimpressed by Torrio's lawyer, who insisted his client was now a respectable realtor who had long ago settled his in come tax troubles with Washington, a U. S. Commissioner set Torrio's bail at a prohibitive $100,000. In the police lineup Torrio was asked where the 1925 fusillade of bullets had hit him. He pointed proudly to his chest and chin. "It's too bad that last shot wasn't higher - right through the middle of your head," dryly observed a police...
...Before 150 undergraduates in the courtyard of Yale's Pierson College appeared a small, mild-faced Negro. .No Yaleman but a collectivist who was sentenced to a Georgia chain gang three years ago for possessing radical literature and is now out on bail, Communist Angelo Herndon gravely announced: "We love our country so much that we are not willing to see her plunge into another...
Unvisited by Capitol sightseers, there lies beneath the marble chambers where Senators & Representatives make the nation's laws, a musty rabbit warren of empty rooms, dark corners, labyrinthine corridors. Into these one cold night last winter crept a hungry, jobless Negro named Fulton Augustus Bond, out on bail after an arrest for vagrancy. A one-time employe in the House restaurant, he found icebox foraging easy, became a trencherman. Capitol police, drawn largely from the job-hungry following of Congressmen, bothered him not at all. Many of them attend Washington's law schools. No detectives, most of them...
...felt many a queer thing. Scientifically curious, he kept records of the seances he attended. In Forty Years of Psychic Research he has rewritten those records into a "plain narrative of fact." Though he has changed "psychics' " names, supplemented his written record with his memory, he goes bail for the essential accuracy of his facts. Says he: "If these supernormal events are illusory, then all the events of my life are illusory...