Word: baile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passed a second deficiency appropriation (of $63 million) to bail out federal agencies which had exceeded their budgets...
...Fields. If the stockholders thought Rubinstein's motive altruistic, the U.S. Government did not. It immediately asked Manhattan's U.S. District Court to raise Rubinstein's bail from $20,000 to $1,000,000 because he was about to flee the country in a four-motored C-54 he had just bought. Furthermore, said the Government, Rubinstein was dumping his securities, and probably had $5,000,000 in cash. He had opened a big bank account in Mexico...
Brusquely, Rubinstein explained that 1) the plane had been bought at the request of the Portuguese Government for a new airline, and 2) the cash in Mexico was for Rubinstein enterprises. The court was unimpressed. It set bail at $500,000. Rubinstein said he would "take legal steps...
...could he do about it? He set a deputy to searching the statutes, discovered that a law prohibiting palmistry, mesmerism and seership also made "crafty sciences" illegal. Promptly he jailed Mrs. Cordova; just as promptly she got out-by muttering Spanish phrases, throwing dark glances and posting $1,000 bail...
...died miserably, drugged to the last by Svengali's evil eye. Last week, flabby and 45, her cheeks pasty white and sagging, Kiki shuffled out of the door of La Roquette Prison. Picked up a month ago near the old Dome for peddling narcotics, Kiki was out on bail so that doctors could treat her drug-shattered nerves...