Word: bond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assignment at the county clerk's office one day last month, Des Moines Register Photographer Robert Long shot a picture of Lawrence Gilchrist, a Denison lawyer, who was posting bond for a county employee indicted on a charge of fraud. After Lawyer Gilchrist complained that having his picture taken was an invasion of his privacy, Photographer Long was arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace (maximum penalty: 30 days in jail or a $100 fine...
...year ago Banker Burgess, a fiscal conservative, was hotly criticized for quarterbacking a 30-year bond issue designed to curb inflation by soaking up long-term investment capital and stiffening interest rates. When it appeared that the medicine might be too stiff, he promptly eased up on his tight-money policies. Nevertheless, Burgess still favors debt-lengthening, has managed to boost average public bond maturities by six months and hopes to stretch them further...
...finds Farmer Burgess to be a fine, strapping man, but just a low-class fellow for all that; yet Leo starts asking questions about Ted because any man who has a mysterious bond with Marian is worth investigating. But he gets only short, veiled answers. "Mr. Burgess is a bit of a lad," says the coachman. "He's a bit of a lady-killer, but there's no harm in that," says Lord Trimingham casually...
...Most notorious Communist bail-jumper to date: Gerhart Eisler, top Cominform agent in the U.S. until 1949, when he forfeited his $23,500 bond and got out of New York on the Polish ship Batory. Fugitive Eisler became East Germany's propaganda chief, and then was placed in charge of preventing escapes across the border...
...Frederick Gardner, 59, was named president of Electric Bond & Share's Ebasco Services Inc., one of the world's biggest designers and builders of utility plants. Gardner began working part-time for Electric Bond as a 25?-an-hour draftsman. He became vice president in 1945, executive vice president in 1952. T. C. Wescott, 67, moves up from president to vice chairman of the board...