Word: bail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Archduke Leopold von Habsburg, brother of Archduke Anton (see above), who was tried and acquitted in Manhattan last autumn for fraud in the sale of the famed $400,000 Maria Theresa necklace; and Mrs. Alicia Gibson Coburn, rich Canadian who arranged for his bail, visited him in the Tombs, sought to have him given a private room, bath and kitchen. Said Archduke Leopold: "I love American ladies and also love to live in America...
...State of Ohio to be prosecuted as a dangerous radical (TIME, March 30). The case against Kassay rested on what he had said, not what he had done, because investigators turned up no legal evidence of sabotage of rivets on the Akron. He was held in $40,000 bail...
...took three days for his confederates to raise the unusually high bail of $25,000. Greene County seemed determined to jail him or run him out of the neighborhood, where his activities menace the summer tourist trade (mostly peace-loving New York Jews...
...Albany, N. Y., a gypsy caravan was arrested for traffic violation. Asked to produce bail, the gypsy chief handed the judge his small baby, said: "Keep the kid." The judge demurred. The tribe gave $4 bond, did not reappear...
Under $500 bail, promptly supplied, the Finn went temporarily free while his attorneys (real ones this time) presented an appeal. In the mock-sentence of the Red court it had been provided that Janitor Yokinen may be re-admitted to the Communist Party if he: 1) diligently agitates for admission of Negroes to the Finnish Workers' Educational Club of which he is janitor and in which he committed "white chauvinism" by objecting to the presence of three Negroes; 2) joins the League of Struggle for Negro Rights; 3) leads a demonstration against "Jim-Crow" restaurants in Harlem...