Word: baile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pittsburgh traffic court Fighter Billy Conn, light-heavyweight champion, was arraigned for speeding, driving without a license, released on $500 bail. Same day, Fighter Conn's father, William Conn, drew a $5 fine for fighting in the street...
...Manfred Zapp and Giinther Tonn, officials of the Nazi Transocean News Service (TIME, March 24), arrested on deportation charges because they entered the U.S. as "treaty merchants" and did not maintain that status, were held at Ellis Island. The Government argument against bail reviewed the case of Baron Franz von Werra, Nazi flier, who put up $15.000 bail and ran away...
...Bail was not refused in the mysterious case of Gaik Badalovitch Ovakimian, Russian agent picked up by the FBI. This stocky, greying, powerful man has been in the U.S. since 1936. Last month, for the first time, he registered with the State Department as the agent of a foreign power. He had sent his wife, child, furniture and car back to Russia, was himself due to leave this month...
...great hush-hush attended the proceedings where Ovakimian was held for $25,-ooo bail. When the U.S. attorney said that Ovakimian was a key figure in the Government's spy investigations, an FBI man shushed him in alarm. Ovakimian growled at the Soviet consul general, who treated him with vast respect (and posted a $25,000 bond with $50 and $100 bills), identified himself first as a buyer for Amtorg Trading Corp., next as representative of the "chemical trust," last as an agent of "the Commissariat." Around the Amtorg office he was always a feared and mysterious figure...
...that this traffic reform wave was in full swing. Cars piled up four deep on the road waiting for summonses. The boys were allowed to get their female passengers home before curfew, but when they reached the station house they were faced with the gloomy alternatives of raising $100 bail, cash or real estate, or spending the night in the jug. Bursar's Cards were scornfully rejected, and real estate was defined to exclude automobiles. They were not permitted to telephone for bail, and, fearing that a realization of the magnitude of their crimes might drive them to desperation...