Word: bail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arrested in South Windsor. Conn, for speeding while driving the car of his cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., Robert B. Delano jumped his $20 bail. In Worcester. Mass. Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, was arrested for speeding, paid a $5 fine...
...third time, just before midnight, the secretary found the detectives ambushed in a dark corridor. He went into the ofifice, emerged grinning: "If you're waiting for Mr. Shoemaker, he will be glad to see you now." Statesman Shoemaker was escorted to the police station, released on $25 bail. By that time Taximan Newman had decided to sue for $100,000 damages. To defend him Statesman Shoemaker got his House colleague. Representative Raymond J. Cannon of Wisconsin who was once attorney for Jack Dempsey. also for Joe ("Shoeless") Jackson in the 1919 baseball scandal. It was not the first...
...bail dangled before the avaricious eyes of the counsel for the defense was $2500 and the sale gave the Record the right to publish any tidbit it wished over the signature of Norma, until she should be released from the custody of the state by acquittal. In the case of conviction it is not too fantastic to suppose that the serial could go on indefinitely...
...onetime "investors" still harbored wrath against him. They carried him off to the East Boston immigration station and booked him for deportation to Italy because he had been twice convicted of crimes involving moral turpitude. He was allowed 90 days freedom if he could raise $1,000 bail. Expecting his wife Rose to bring the bail at any moment, he refused to take off his coat and hat, refused to eat lunch. His next meal, he insisted, was going to be chicken with rice, and he was going to spend the night with his wife at Boston's best...
...more than 24 hours before the bail was raised and he was free. Meantime a Negro attorney was preparing an appeal to Madam Secretary Perkins against his deportation. The grounds: he was twice convicted but only one act of moral turpitude was involved...