Word: bails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year to the defendants, Natchez this year turned against them, revolted by their grotesque behavior in appearing in theatres, permitting sightseers, at 25? a head, to swarm through their ramshackle plantation, to which the Mississippi Central R. R. ran excursion trains. Each was released pending trial on $1,000 bail...
...wild-eyed studio publicity man named Space Hanlon (Lee Tracy), Lola's life is really no more than a negative for her pictures, a high-speed press for headlines. Hanlon has the marquis arrested for not renewing his passport; Lola gets the director to put up the bail. Before the screamer headlines on the first story have time to cool, Hanlon arranges for count and director to come to blows at Lola's house. The fight not only produces more headlines; it thwarts Lola's scheme, which Hanlon thinks might dull her lurid reputation, to adopt...
...Murdock is no more to blame than the rest of us. It would break our hearts if the authorities should punish Mr. Murdock. He was always kind to the children," said the dead child's mother. But Murdock was put under $1,500 bail, held for the grand jury on a charge of second-degree manslaughter on the strength of a report that he had not fed his bears for two days. When an autopsy disproved this he was cleared by a coroner's jury...
...Campbell, who promptly pleaded not guilty to the indictment and was released on $1,000 bail because no moral turpitude was involved in the charge, was thoroughly aware of the risks he was running in this contest with the Government. If convicted, he could be disbarred, fined $10,000, imprisoned for ten years. But he was, he intimated, making a fight for his Constitutional rights and "if I have to go to jail, I don't care...
...many of their bonds have gone into default and Straus & Co. folded up last spring. All they remembered was that they had lost money in spite of Straus & Co.'s protestations of conservatism and good faith. When Nick Roberts came out of Tombs Court under $5,000 bail, a man shouted, "Here, do you want one?" and threw a handful of bonds...