Word: bail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...membership now numbers more than 350. Recently-elected officers of the Club are: J.P. Howland '28, president; Haughton Bell '17, vice-president; H.V. Bail '13, treasurer; W.A. Wood '19, secretary. The Advisory Council is composed of Grenville Clark '03, S.W. Howland '04, L.P. Marvin '98, and D.P. Robinson '90. P.H. Smart '14 is chairman of the committee on admissions...
...Nice, French Riviera, deep-dimpled Mrs. Fred G. Nixon-Nirdlinger, the young U. S. citizen who slew her elderly Philadelphia husband (TIME, March 23), was loudly cheered by 1,000 Niceois when she went to court to plead for bail. Bail was denied. The prisoner was returned to the cell which she shares with a French Negress charged with murder, was told that she may have to spend the Summer there awaiting trial...
...suggested itself, for a ring and fur coat worth $5,000 which she had been wearing were missing. Immediate police attention was directed, however, toward one Sam ("Chowderhead") Cohen, onetime burglar, and John A. Radeloff, the dead woman's Brooklyn attorney. These two were held in $50,000 bail following a disclosure in her diary: "I fear only one man and he is Radeloff . . . who, if he wanted, could get Cohen and a couple of his henchmen to do away with...
...very passivity and sanity it fails to give the true radical a sense of striving towards the goal which will arise from the new order. The second method consists in actual participation in the reform movements by mass meetings of protest, presentation of petitions, or even furnishing bail for less fortunate or discreet colleagues...
...profit politically from his sudden headline reputation as the judicial scourge of Chicago's gang world. From the bench and with newshawks closely covering him he made a great dramatic and futile attempt to have the city's 26 "Public Enemies" arrested and held in exorbitant bail under an old vagrancy law (TIME, Oct. 13). So erratic and unstable that he had scant support from lawyers, Judge Lyle focused his campaign on the charge that Mayor Thompson was in league with the underworld, that Gangster Alphonse Capone had contributed $50,000 to the last Thompson campaign...