Word: arrest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boldest of the witnesses was a small, bent, greying woman. Like a Fury she raged at Herr Badchis, "You ordered my daughter's arrest and thought you could make her talk. When she kept quiet your men strapped her into a chair, an electric chair...
...Washington police, forewarned by the U. S. State Department, were on hand to disperse and arrest a brigade of placard-bearers who appeared one day outside the White House in the name of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League. "Wall Street and not Sandino is the real bandit," said one placard. "We do not appeal to the White House but to the masses against the White House," said another. In the White House, unaware that his Nicaraguan policy was being so openly criticized, President Coolidge shook hands with other, flattered, peaceful tourists...
...Candidate Smith and his friends lamented an occurrence in Brooklyn. There, police were obliged to arrest Patrolman Vincent Glynn, 200-lb., 27-year-old son of Candidate Smith's sister, Mrs. Catherine Smith Glynn. It appeared that Nephew Glynn, on sick leave, had drawn his pistol in an alleged speakeasy and said: "How would you like to see what I can do with this?" He fired at the stove, wounded a man, fled to a vacant store, fumbled with his pistol, wounded himself...
...Later in the week, Chief of Police Hughes sent out 525 policemen in automobiles with orders to arrest not bombers, but U. S. Prohibition agents. Said he: "Bring in the whole gang. We'll see whether these roughnecks from the East can shoot up Chicago and get away with it." The reason for Chief of Police Hughes' sudden activity was that a prohibition agent had shot and wounded one William Beatty, political worker for Mayor Thompson, in a saloon...
Points: i) The earnings in tips per gigolo per night generally range between 70 francs ($2.80) and 200 francs ($8.00); 2) A large percentage of Paris gigolos are not French; 3) French law does not permit the arrest or restraint of a French gigolo as such; 4) The Ministry of Labor has announced an intention to scrutinize more closely in future the applications of foreign males who seek permits to work as "dancers" in France. M. Chiappe expressed the hope that much good will be done by refusing permits to "foreign dancers" who appear in reality to be gigolos...