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...that in his opinion the bail of $30,000 fixed for Strike leader Weisbord (whom Sheriff Nimmo had just arrested) was excessive. A police whistle cawed. "Clean 'em up, boys," a voice directed, and the policemen, armed with clubs and shotguns, dissolved the group, hustled Mr. Thomas away to jail. After spending the night there, he was held on $10,000 bail for the grand jury. His lawyers made efforts to discover the offense with which he was charged...
Albert Weisbord, jailed on four counts, three of them headed "Hostility to Government" and the fourth "Inciting to Riot," was released on $25,000 bail by the Paterson police, rearrested on the same charges by the Garfield deputies. He could not get another $25,000; so he was taken to a cell? a thin, frail young man but recently graduated from the Harvard Law School. Bainbridge Colby, onetime Secretary of State, spoke vainly on behalf of him and U.S. justice. Later Prosecutor A.C. Hart was persuaded to reduce his bail to $5,000, which was found for him. As Weisbord...
...policemen, thousands of witnesses, had seen him do it; he too knew that he was guilty. He had broken an edict relating to decency. No escape was possible. Already burly bluecoats were nudging through the crowd; while the onlookers hooted, mooed, clapped and guffawed, they led him off to jail. For this coin-biter was H. L. Mencken, journalist; by accepting the 50� as payment for a copy of the green-covered magazine, The American Mercury, of which he is the editor, he had broken an edict which barred that magazine from sale in Boston as "indecent...
...Henry J. Miller, now serving a ten months' jail sentence at Santa Ana, Calif., for violating the Narcotic Law, said...
...burntout editor of the Times, unbending before the new regime of upstart Jew manufacturers; Mildred, a proud, suffering, spent stranger in his house. John was able to make some amends to Nina. He abandoned his code to the extent of lying to get their Communist son out of jail. But neither Nina nor the boy really needed even that. They were self-sufficient. They loved him, thanked him and took their ways. John accepted an ambassadorship and invited Mildred to go with him, to live out their failure together...