Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sick industry, drastic cures have been proposed, from outright federal subsidies to local tax relief. e.g., Spokane has agreed to bail out its transit company with $53,000 yearly by lifting a street-use tax and snowplowing bus routes...
Thereupon. Judge Thomason found Matusow guilty of contempt of court, a finding that avoided the legal complications involved in a perjury charge. He sentenced Matusow to three years in prison, and ordered him held in $10,000 bail. At that point. Matusow's stock appeared to have reached a new low. An El Paso bondsman, only recently released from the penitentiary, where he served sentence for receiving stolen goods, said: "I wouldn't post bond for that S.O.B...
Salesman. In Tallahassee, Fla., Bail Bondsman Tony Johnson was ordered to answer charges that he 1) printed the county sheriff's office telephone number on his business cards, 2) had prisoners called to the jailer's office so that he could urge them to let him post their bail, 3) often slept in the county jail to keep tabs on likely new prospects...
...serve a 60-day contempt-of-court sentence. The others were rearrested on charges of knowingly being members of a party dedicated to violent overthrow of the Government, a charge first tested by the Government when Claude Lightfoot was convicted in Chicago last month, and released in $5,000 bail. The five were: Eugene Dennis, 50, former general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party; John Gates, 42, former Daily Worker editor; John B. Williamson. 52, former party labor secretary; Jacob A. Stachel, 55, former educational director; Carl Winter, 48, former Michigan state chairman...
...defendants now awaiting trial at the Paris Assizes this week, one has been in jail for 32 months; the average is 18 months. Even if the defendant is eventually acquitted, he has no redress, receives no compensation for his long imprisonment. Bail is almost unheard of; Frenchmen consider it an undemocratic favoring of the rich over the poor...