Word: remand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colombia's Senate and charged with using the presidency for personal enrichment was General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 58, deposed in 1957 by a popular revolution. If the Senate decides that Rojas is guilty, it can deprive him of "civil rights," e.g., the right to vote, and it can remand him to the Supreme Court for trial on criminal charges. If the charges stick, Rojas may find himself behind prison bars...
...Remand Union. In Chicago, Mrs. Berenice Reilly complained in court that her estranged husband was giving her $32 weekly on condition that she spend every nickel of it in his grocery...
...their heels, opposing every move to reduce their bail. He carried his vigilance even further. He argued that the $171,000 bail which they did produce was "tainted," since it was provided by the Communist Civil Rights Congress. He persuaded Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan to revoke the bail and remand the Reds to jail, until the source of the bonds could be more closely scrutinized. His argument: the Civil Rights Congress unblinkingly forfeited $23,500 bail when Top Communist Gerhart Eisler fled the U.S., also stood surety for the eleven convicted Communist leaders, four of whom have since jumped bail...