Word: bails
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...civil rights agitation William Zanzinger a tobacco plantation owner, kills Hattle Carroll, one of his servants with a cane in a spontaneous, unprovoked fit of anger. "In a courtroom of honor" where "the ladder of law has no top and no bottom" a judge releases him on bail and later him off with a six month sentence...
...domestic flights, "suicide." TWA Chairman Charles Tillinghast predicts that it would lead to a "breakdown of the system as we know it," and eventually to "pressure for subsidies and nationalization." Although few people are yet talking nationalization, the Ford Administration is contemplating legislation to force mergers that could bail out weaker carriers. Says Transportation Secretary William Coleman: "Somebody is going to have to take a look at the domestic airlines and decide how many there should...
...sition was George's father Archie Parr, a small-time rancher. For years thereafter, the Mexicans - who still make up 90% of the population of Duval and surrounding counties - honored Parr as their cacique. Parr saw to it that roads were built, local government jobs were manufactured, and bail money was available to miscreants. In return, Parr's political vassals, many of them ill-educated and poor, voted the way he said...
...economy. Largely because of hard times, the New York State Urban Development Corp., an agency created at Rockefeller's urging, ran out of cash just as Carey took office. To save the state's credit-and housing developments already abuilding -Carey had to persuade the legislature to bail out U.D.C. temporarily while he bargained with reluctant bankers to get new underwriting. He also staved off financial disaster in the New York City transit system with an extra infusion of state money. These and other problems, says Carey, have produced a routine of "one day of crisis...
Adams was jailed for more than two months without being formally charged, an archaic holdover from the harsh Napoleonic code. He was released on $9,750 bail (paid by the EEC) two weeks ago, but while he was in prison in January, his depressed wife committed suicide; the Swiss would not let Adams out of jail for her burial. Roche lawyers also said they regard Schlieder, widely respected in boardrooms throughout Europe, and Borschette as accomplices in the "spying" case...