Word: bails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accepting Adams' explanations, the President, whether he liked it or not, automatically went bail for Adams' faith in Textile and Real Estate Millionaire Goldfine, Adams' friend and benefactor. That done, the Administration was stuck with whatever Goldfine might really turn out to be. What Bernard Goldfine turned out to be in his testimony last week before the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight (see Investigations) was a cheap and devious character-a fast man with a buck, whether to manipulate the financial fortunes of his numerous mills and real estate holdings or to distribute gifts to public...
...amber-tinted visor over his tearing eyes-but he could not read his instruments again without lifting it. His gloved hands froze to near helplessness. Under his seat was the armed, unexploded powder charge that had failed to fire his seat out of the cockpit in the early bail-out try. "You're so numb, I don't think there's any fear at all. You're just numb...
...this week's first observation of Law Day, U.S.A., TIME correspondents and stringers across the U.S. sought out lawyers, judges, law professors-even bail bondsmen-and pinned them down on their favorite subject. Into TIME'S wire room poured thousands of words of reportage that portrayed a picture of the U.S. that was a surprise even to serious students of the law-a genuine awareness that it is time to think beyond mere laws to find the principles of Law itself. For the sum of the reportage, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Work of Justice...
...said Nixon-and it was perhaps the central "but" of Recession 1958-"there is too much of a tendency in some business quarters to say: let the Government bail out the economy. Government can help, but the primary responsibility for recovery must be assumed by American business and labor and the other vital forces that make up the private sector of the American economy...
...Anomaly in the Law." The case considered by the Supreme Court last week was that of top U.S. Communists Gilbert Green and Henry Winston, convicted under the Smith Act in 1949, each fined $10,-ooo and sentenced to five years in prison. After sentencing, both jumped bail and hid out for nearly five years. When they gave themselves up in 1956, they were sentenced to three more years apiece for their contempt of court in jumping bond. The criminal-contempt convictions were upheld last week by the Supreme Court-but only by a 5-to-4 vote...