Word: bails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...things had come to a pretty pass when a journalist could not sell his own paper on the sidewalks of New York. Ready to back his editor to the limit of his resources, the News's Publisher Patrick Bernard ("The Roaming Dreamer") Mulkern and his associates furnished $10 bail when the judge refused to see the case in its broader aspects, issued a ringing statement...
Legislature. Eire will once more have a bicameral government, the Bail (lower house), the Senate (upper house). Year ago the Senate was abolished because it was a nuisance politically to de Valera's party, Fianna Fail. More than two-thirds of the 60 new Senators will be elected as representatives of the arts, agriculture, commerce, industry...
Overnight, obscure Angelo Herndon became a front-page communist hero, his freedom a prime Red Cause. Released on $7,000 bail provided by the International Labor Defense, he marched up & down the land addressing Red rallies while I. L. D. lawyers fought his case through the courts. Twice Georgia's Supreme Court affirmed his sentence. The U. S. Supreme Court once sent the case back to Georgia because of improper presentation, then took jurisdiction...
...cellar, found Father Divine vainly seeking to "invisibilize" himself behind the furnace. "Peace!" he quavered. "I'll go with you and I'll waive extradition." The Messiah was bundled off to police headquarters in Manhattan. It was after midnight, too late for his three attorneys to arrange bail, so Father Divine spent the rest of the night in jail. In noisy Harlem, miles uptown, word of "God's" plight circulated, and soon the streets near the jail began filling with chanting Negroes (see pictures...
...scrawny Negro named "Happy Heart" stepped forward, said: "Father's followers have no leader. We all work by intuition. You won't have any trouble if you just let us alone." Father Divine was taken to Felony Court, released for hearing this week upon payment of $500 bail by a follower named "St. Mary Bloom." Uptown there were more crowds and the skies rained cards printed: Your Maker and Creator Is Here. In Kingdom No. 1, Father Divine ate with his shouting followers. The homecoming was climaxed beyond their hopes when someone came in with the agreeable news...