Word: bails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leader of a squad of Jewish policemen assigned by Mayor LaGuardia in 1938 to guard Manhattan's Nazi consulate. After a spotless record of 29 years, Captain Finkelstein last fortnight asked for retirement, was told that he would be required to face charges of accepting irregular bail bonds...
...Irish Free State to sanction it, give a fat chunk of the proceeds to impoverished Irish hospitals. R. J. Duggan, the bookmaker, had experience: he had run sweepstakes before. Joseph McGrath, the politician, had a flock of friends: he had been Minister of Labor under President Griffith. With the Bail's consent, Duggan & McGrath formed the Irish Hospitals' Trust...
University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins refused Communist Earl Browder (out on bail pending appeal of his conviction for passport fraud) permission to speak on the University of Chicago campus. Said Hutchins to protesting students: "If the university banned a redheaded man it would be an infringement of civil liberties. If it banned a murderer it would not. This case lies somewhere in between...
Rosselli was arrested, held in $200 bail. But quicker than Rosselli could sole a shoe came a chiding wire to Wisconsin officials from Census Director William Lane Austin: "You have disregarded instructions that before taking legal action such cases must be submitted to Washington office for disposition." Charges against Cobbler Rosselli were dropped...
...Bellevue Hospital lay Partner Milton B. Logan, his skull fractured by a blow with a lead-filled iron pipe. In a Brooklyn grave lay Partner John T. Geery, a bullet hole blown in his brain. In jail without bail sat Newsdealer John Poggi, charged with using the lead pipe on Logan at Geery's instigation...