Word: bail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indictments brought by Prosecutor Purves 1) charged him with accepting a bribe from a slot-machine operator, 2) accused him and the city garbage superintendent of trying to extort $5,000 from Bremerton's No. 1 Citizen, Edward Bremer, in blackmail over a girl. Released on $5,000 bail, Mayor Knabb was promptly greeted by a Better Bremerton League headed by the town's principal ministers, asked to "observe the moral laws as well as the civil laws." Babbled Jesse Knabb: "Aw, those pitiful ministers, one is a Holy Roller and the other is a dead beat...
...Bail of $1,000,000 would not be too much!" boasted his lawyer, as Jimmy Hines produced $15,000 in cash from his pocket and promised to get another $5,000 promptly. "Thousands of decent citizens would come forward to add their share. . . . Why, a few years ago the President of the United States praised Mr. Hines for his humanitarian activities. . . . He's almost an angel...
Prime Minister Eamon de Valera usually gets his bills passed in Eire's Bail Eireann (lower house) by a small majority. He has often been irked by the fact that his Fianna Fail Party, with 68 votes out of 138, has had to depend upon scattering Labor and Independent votes...
CAMBRIDGE, MASS (Wednesday--UP)--Six Massachusetts Institute of Technology students, who pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges arising from a riot Monday night, face trial tomorrow in district court. They were released in total bail of $400 raised by classmates...
...ducked the wing., missed the cabin, was knocked flat by the tail. The pilotless plane wheeled dizzily round the field, crashed through a fence, pinned a woman bystander against her automobile. The woman was hospitalized. Charged with third-degree assault, Flyer D'Annunzio was arrested, held in $500 bail...