Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stinnes industrial empire (TIME, Oct. 18, 1963), is keeping them in operation until they can be resold. When the owner of a huge Nurnberg photographic mail-order house was arrested recently on suspicion of tax fraud, B.F.G. saved his company by putting up more than $2,000,000 to bail him out. By such ventures, the bank has preserved thousands of jobs, also reaped dividends of good will and new accounts in the German business community...
...July 4, four civil rights workers, including a Harvard junior, were arrested in Selma, Ala. while testing the public accommodations secton of the Civil Rights Law of 1964. They have remained in jail since Saturday, unable to post the $500 cash bail that has been demanded for each count...
...gonna keep him down on the farm when he's out on $140,000 bail (and appealing his three mail-fraud convictions)? It's more than ordinarily tough when the country boy is Texas Fizz Kid Billy Sol Estes, 39. A 24-ft. sign now rising over an El Paso building reads "Billy Sol Estes, Importer and Exporter of Fine Products," and though Pecos Bill is listed only as an "employee" of the shop (one way to avoid a stampede of creditors), it looks as though he is starting up for real in the Mexican scrape and sombrero...
...prayers or cancel tax breaks or churches (TIME, May 15), suddenly found herself in a peck of trouble with the law. Last week, she packed up her mother, her brother, two sons, daughter-in-law, cat and dog and flew to Hawaii. Madalyn's family thereby 1) jumped bail bonds totaling $8,750, 2) violated two Baltimore court orders, 3) fled a dozen charges ranging from assault to contempt of court...
Released on bail, Mrs. Murray decided that enough was enough. "If I go before that kangaroo court, I wouldn't stand a chance," she said. "The police would bring in 250 witnesses-neighbors who hate me." At the Washington airport, she announced that Hawaii would be a good place to carry on her work as head of two nationwide atheist organizations, since "80% of the Hawaiians are Buddhist, and Buddhists are absolute atheists...