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...indicted U.M.W. members have received no support from U.M.W. Local, district, and international treasuries are flush, but the miners have had to find their $1,000 bond money elsewhere (some from professional bondsmen, some from community storekeepers). John L. Lewis knows that aid for the indicted miners would infuriate a sizable percentage of U.M.W. members who resented the outlaw strikes and an even larger percentage of U.S. citizens who consider such strikes near treason. Local leaders believe that the sly Old Man of the Mines, considers these cases poor grounds for a Supreme Court fight. But with or without U.M.W...
Harvard follows sound banking policy in charging 5 per cent interest on loans that are, for all practical purposes, unsecured. If the borrowing student is a minor, his promissory note has no validity in court; and although, legally, the student's bondsmen can be held responsible for his debt, the University has refrained from such action as unjust to the bondsmen and injurious to its public relations. In effect, the student's good will is the only security behind the money he borrows from Harvard...
...apartments). Then various racketeers decided that a handsome profit could be made by assessing each prostitute $10 per week for bail bond, on a guarantee that she would never be jailed. One autumn day Lucania, a gambler and narcotic seller known as "Lucky Luciano" or "Charlie Lucky,"summoned the bondsmen to conference in a Lower East Side restaurant. After a few words with a lieutenant named "Little Davie" Betillo, he turned to the conferees, barked: "You guys are through. I'm giving the business to Little Davie...
...feared was Lucania, declared tall, handsome young Prosecutor Dewey, that the bondsmen promptly quit their business. Independent bookers were either driven out of the city at gun point or forced to join the syndicate...
...board, $5 for medical examination and care, $10 to the syndicate for bonding. That left $75 to $100 per week for herself. When a house was raided and a girl arrested, the madam would telephone a man named "Binge," who in turn notified one of the syndicate's bondsmen. The madam had to put up half the girl's bail, usually $300 to $500, did not get it back if the girl was acquitted. Arrested girls were taken to the ring's lawyer, a disbarred attorney named Karp, coached in an alibi. Eight out of ten appeared...