Word: bails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what he would be expected to do as a prisoner in Second Division-scrub his own cell, wear prison clothes, work eight hours a day "at light labor" (library or clerical work)-before Lord Kylsant, just like any U. S. convict, was out again, released on $50,000 bail, pending appeal in October...
...record of a case appealed from her court; 2) jailing as a wayward minor on hearsay evidence a girl artist found living with a married man by a Methodist deaconess; 3) ordering special probation reports to support her convictions of prostitutes who had appealed; 4) buying stock in a bail bond concern that did business in her court; 5) exploiting her office for $1,000 from Fleischmann's yeast. Though not corrupt she was found "judicially unfit" to occupy the bench on which she had so proudly sat for twelve happy years...
...outside his Fifth Avenue apartment, Gangster Schultz saw one of his four henchmen shot down, fled. Captured, taken to headquarters, Gangster Schultz begged for a sedative, said that he was on the verge of nervous prostration, asked that no camera flashlights be exploded. After he was placed under $150.000 bail (it was later halved, he was released) for carrying a gun and resisting arrest, U. S. Attorney George Zerdin Medalie announced that he was trying to bring tax evasion and bootlegging charges against the pale-faced hoodlum...
...which lasted three months-the longest in the history of New York county-justice was meted out to the other four. All save Pollock, on whom the jury could not agree, were found guilty, liable to seven years in prison, $1,000 fine. They were remanded to jail without bail. The deal for which the culprits were held responsible was selected from a host of other shady practices by which the bank's officers, panic-stricken by the 1929 stockmarket crash, guided the institution to ruin. It was a game of financial ring- around-a-rosy, played as follows...
...final examination day for students of parachute jumping at the Army's Chanute Field, Rantoul, Ill., and Private Harold L. Osborne was being borne aloft to make his final qualifying jump. Nervously he rehearsed his instructions to "bail out," to count to ten while he hurtled downward clear of the ship, then pull the ripcord of his 'chute. At a nod from the pilot of the plane, Private Osborne clambered half out of the cockpit, glanced once at the earth 2,000 ft. below, was seized by the "jitters." He dared not let go, he dared not turn...