Word: bails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...folk, Mary Kinder, Opal Long, Anne Martin, were clapped into jail, guarded by 15 armed men while police checked over five machine guns, $26,000 in cash, $12,000 in jewels, six bullet-proof vests, all found in the suspicious luggage. A Justice of the Peace held them in bail of $100,000 each...
...five, including the woman, had on the evidence "insulted" one of the efficient Guardia Civil whose support is indispensable to the Republic. Pointing out that there is a law against "spoken insult against the armed forces of Spain." the Supreme Court last week smacked the four, then out on bail in Palma, with six-months-and-a-day jail sentences, let the fifth...
...them. Their problem was to get to the nearest European settlement, in Java, 3,600 miles away. Prevailing easterly winds made a return to Tahiti impossible. The boat was only 23 feet long, so heavily laden that there was less than nine inches of freeboard amidships. They had to bail almost continually to keep afloat...
Pleading "not guilty" last week Claimant Gordon-Haddon plaintively remarked: "I never had any criminal intention," was released in ?100 bail. ¶To the crew of the London, Midland & Scottish Railway's sample Royal Scot express train which last summer steamed around Canada and the U. S. and was exhibited at Chicago's Century of Progress (TIME, May 22), George V sent written congratulations which were read last week by L. M. S. Chairman Sir Josiah Stamp as the far-wandering Scot steamed into Euston Station...
Blood Money (Twentieth Century), contrived as a vehicle to bring George Bancroft back to the screen after an absence of 18 months, is a mildly exciting little treatise on the bail bond racket. Its hero, Bill Bailey (Bancroft), is a bluff bondsman who gets into difficulties with his underworld associates when, to pay back a bank thief for stealing his girl, he makes less sympathetic arrangements than usual. It is notable less for Bancroft's contribution than for its villainess (Frances Dee), a pretty, well-mannered debutante who is also a masochist, a kleptomaniac and an exhibitionist. Good shot...