Word: bail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insull may join her husband), Algiers and Casablanca to pick up cargo. When he reaches the U. S. Samuel Insull will: 1) be arrested-the ship docks first at Boston where Sam Insull Jr. may meet him; 2) be carried off to Chicago; 3) probably be released on bail; 4) face trial on Federal charges of bankruptcy act violations and using the mails to defraud; 5) may be sentenced to 50 years in prison. 6) After the Federal Government gets through with him, he may also have to stand trial on Illinois charges of larceny and embezzlement...
Sweringen pleaded not guilty, were each released on $7,500 bail. To President Baldwin's previous bail of $7,500 the court added $1,000 when he also pleaded not guilty...
...stepped Brother Martin, a superannuated shell of a man, white-haired, white-faced, stolidly resigned. Only one argument arose while his $50,000 bail was being arranged. Prosecutor O'Hora asked that the prisoner be ordered to stay in Illinois. Insull's attorney objected: "He wants to go to his daughter's home across the state line in Morocco, Ind. It's the only place he has to live...
...born Promoter Julian won & lost a real estate fortune in California where later he formed Julian Petroleum Corp., a $40,000,000 producing and marketing organization. He left it shortly before it collapsed, formed a similar company in Oklahoma. When Oklahoma courts investigated him, he jumped a $25,000 bail bond, exiled himself in China where he died penniless...
...competitors of their parent companies, conspired to sell Standard and Associated gasoline to the public under a different brand at drastically reduced prices in order to squeeze out independents. Terming this ''the most vicious price cutting war in oil history," the grand jurors carefully fixed $1,000 bail for defendants-after they are arrested. If convicted under the oil code they face $500 fine on each count. Standard's total fine would be $1,600,000, Associated's $2,200,000. In Washington day later it was learned that Oil Administrator Ickes disapproved of the jury...