Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good behavior on pain of putting them out of business altogether. On motion of Senator McAdoo the Finance Committee cut the heart clean out of the bill. The vote was 12-to-7, with Utah's King, Texas' Connally, Oklahoma's Gore, North Carolina's Bailey, Virginia's Byrd, Missouri's Clark, Democrats all, deserting their President. Final elimination of the license system would leave the Government powerless to enforce its industrial decrees, and the remainder of the law hardly more than a pious expression of policy which any concern could defy with impunity...
...State Terror" who had pleaded guilty to killing a man in Kansas (which has no death penalty) to avoid being extradited to Oklahoma, where he had killed two others. Three of his four years in the Kansas penitentiary had been spent in solitary confinement. He and Harvey Bailey-leader of the $2,000,000 Lincoln (Neb.) Bank & Trust Co. holdup in 1930, who was finally caught while golfing in Kansas City-directed what happened next. They threatened to kill the warden, "pile up the guards in heaps," unless they and nine companions were allowed freedom. Warden Prather, choking...
Clambering down the outside wall with a hemp ladder the prisoners had made, the party seized the prison farm superintendent's car. A guard shot Harvey Bailey in the leg, but no further resistance was offered the convicts. The convicts retaliated by shooting a guard...
...soon as another car could be seized, Bailey, Underhill, the warden, two captured guards and four convicts split away from the rest, a group of five who went their way in the second car. Both groups headed south for the Oklahoma badlands...
...intended for the express purpose of enabling the Treasury to make provision for maturing Federal obligations." The Roosevelt steamroller flattened the Bonus.* As an amendment to the farm relief bill, Inflation was adopted by the thwacking vote 64-to-21. Only two other Democrats - North Carolina's Bailey and Ohio's Bulkley-joined Senator Glass in opposition. Almost forgotten in the excitement over Inflation was the farm bill which after three weeks' debate the Senate also passed 64-to-20. The House had already approved separately a farm price bill and a farm mortgage bill which were...