Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unaware of his legal rights, Olson stayed in jail for twelve days without realizing that he could get out by paying $300 bail. Then to his rescue came Attorney Clair Hoehn, president of the school board in Gladstone, 40 miles from Thompson. "Ridiculous," said Hoehn, after reading The Stranger himself. "This boy just wanted his students to have some different reading than 'Run, Dick...
...quarter of the university faculty (112 professors) signed a petition supporting Lawson. When he was arrested for conspiracy to restrain trade and commerce, the divinity-school faculty chipped in $500 for bail. The faculty stirred such a fuss that Dean Nelson set about readmitting Lawson. But last week Chancellor Branscomb vetoed the idea, and Nelson quit...
...Baltimore, Hearst executives tried two years ago to bail the ailing News-Post out of the doldrums by sending in a top troubleshooter. Managing Editor William Townes, 50. Ahead of the prosperous Sun papers in circulation, the News-Post had long played second fiddle in advertising revenue, as advertisers shunned a paper addressed almost exclusively to the city's trolley travelers. Townes vastly improved the paper, but was pulled out after two years-much too soon to have any permanent effect...
...wide the movement has spread without any help from whites, 142 sit-in leaders from eleven Southern states and the District of Columbia met in Raleigh. N.C., voted to set up a Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee, with headquarters in Atlanta. The delegates pledged themselves to accept jail before bail if arrested, heard the Rev. Martin Luther King, head of Atlanta's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, predict that willingness to go to jail "may well be the thing to awaken the dozing conscience of many of our white brothers." In Nashville, Fisk University's President Stephen J. Wright summed...
...under Guterma controls. To conceal the losses, he set up dummy corporations. Guterma and Eveleigh also withheld information from stockholders, obtained loans on stocks whose value was artificially maintained, even asked a prosecution witness to plead the Fifth Amendment after their trial began. Both men were held without bail pending sentencing Feb. 17. In prison Guterma could only look forward to more of the same. On his agenda: trials on charges of conspiracy in connection with two other companies...