Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their defense. As a result, streetcar crewmen were ordered out of uniform and into civilian clothes so that they could hastily mingle with the crowd and disappear in case of an accident. When they turned themselves in to the cops a few days later, they always had bail money and an amparo (injunction) for a quick release. The crewmen went back to work, and the accident cases usually dragged on to cheap settlements...
Hidden Costs. In Mexico City, arrested for bigamy after he had married two girls and proposed to a third, Thomas J. Butler explained that he had forgotten his marriages, sold his car to pay bail, remarked: "I cannot understand how a woman can be so expensive without [my] remembering...
...Look, son, I know you gotta get back to Harvard, but we have lock you up until somebody gets down here to bail you out. It'll be fifty dollars...
...Hiya kid. Whatsa matter, your Pop forget to give yuh allowance this week? Never mind--Freddie will go bail for yuh. You look like a honest...
...Brownell on last week's Report from the White House radio program. In its first year, Brownell said, the Eisenhower Administration has: ¶ Convicted and jailed, under the Smith Act, 17 Communist Party leaders. They were indicted when Truman was still in office, and are now free on bail, pending appeal...