Word: bail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a Bowery "smoke joint" was closed last week by the local Prohibition Administrator, Major Maurice Campbell; many another closed through fear. Thirty purveyors of cheap alcohol were held under $2,500 bail for arraignment before a Federal grand jury. In almost every case, the alcohol in evidence was of the type used to keep automobile radiators from freezing. Despite the reassuring names of some "smoke" salesmen (Mike Whiskey, Frank Barri), almost all 30 were dealing in liquid death...
...drag him to safety. Arrested were eleven patrons on the charge of liquor possession (a misdemeanor under the Volstead Act), 16 employes charged with providing "set-ups." Through a hooting, jeering Broadway crowd, the 27 men were taken to the police station, later held in $500 or more bail each for trial...
...Barney Barnato had preceded them, had somehow garnered a few thousand pounds, bought some claims at Kimberley. Shortly thereafter the Barnatos and the Joels found themselves in the eclectic company of world's richest men. In 1884 Brother Jack was involved in the Illicit Buying Case, jumped bail in South Africa, returned to England where he has lived ever since. In 1898 Brother Woolf was shot and killed by a German adventurer, one von Woltheim...
George Meany, member of Yale's water polo team, brother of champion diver Helen Meany, spreeing with companions near Greenwich, Conn., got into a religious dispute, entered an Episcopal Church, smashed at the interior until police arrived. His father refused to bail...
...Hanau went to jail after her subscribers had lost 120,000,000 francs ($4,800,000) in the securities she recommended and sold (TIME, Dec. 17, 1928). Three weeks ago she demanded, her black eyes flashing, to be let out of prison on bail. When this was refused she hunger- struck. In consternation some thousands of thrifty French peasants and shopkeepers who still hope to get something back on their Hanau stock, clamored that the death of Mme Hanau would make it impossible to untangle her finances, demanded that she be forcibly...