Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, out on $5,000 bail. ex-Banker Sexton became an ex-publisher too. She turned over the Courier's presses and equipment to the American Surety Company to cover bank losses, and closed down the 13-month-old paper that she had started. Facing trial for embezzlement (maximum penalty: five years in prison and a $5,000 fine), Fronia Sexton said sadly: "The paper was just too much for me to handle...
...Passed three anti-subversive bills that would 1) make bail-jumping* a felony punishable by five years in prison and a $5,000 fine; 2) strip convicted Communists of citizenship; 3) require subversive organizations to register with the Attorney General all their printing equipment, down to Mimeograph machines...
...Most notorious Communist bail-jumper to date: Gerhart Eisler, top Cominform agent in the U.S. until 1949, when he forfeited his $23,500 bond and got out of New York on the Polish ship Batory. Fugitive Eisler became East Germany's propaganda chief, and then was placed in charge of preventing escapes across the border...
...social gathering there in April 1950, a young woman asked the Senator: "Just how long ago did you discover Communism?" McCarthy's answer: "Two and a half months!" By that time, Woltman recalled, twelve top U.S. Communists had been convicted, Gerhart Eisler had jumped his bail and fled the country, Alger Hiss had been convicted of perjury, and Klaus Fuchs had been arrested in Britain. Said Woltman: "Senator McCarthy, although he often took credit, had no hand in [these cases. His] knowledge and understanding of Communism were sparse." Nevertheless, McCarthy has been able to build up the myth that...
Last week Freshman Howard Graves, 24, co-winner of a "Most Valuable Player" award this spring, was out on bail after a 19-year-old M.S.C. coed accused him of rape. Otherwise, said Coach Hugh ("Duff") Daugherty, "our squad's behavior is as good as any in the country." ¶ Finally fed up with an accumulation of ugly incidents, Northwestern University shut down the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity house - the first fraternity ever banned in the university's history. Among the grievances against it: 40% of the brothers are on academic probation; eight have been suspended from school...