Word: arrest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House, Prohibition came to the fore when the Treasury and Post Office Departments' appropriation bill was disbursed. Representative James A. Gallivan, of Massachusetts, Democrat, spoke to a packed house on a section in the Treasury appropriation providing $250,000 for the arrest of violators of the prohibition law. He described a banquet given by two prohibition agents (as described in an official report...
...general alarm was sent out for his arrest by the New York police . . . to the rank and file of the police department he is known as "Bum." . . . He faced 22 years of prison life, including five years of an unexpired sentence in Auburn . . . clever and dangerous . . . handcuffs . . . a heavy blow from behind . . . two patrolmen . . . escape...
Last week Sir Basil Thomson, now 64 years of age, was arraigned in a London police court on the incredible charge of having misconducted himself with a young girl in Hyde Park. The more inflammatory despatches did not hesitate to link mention of the crime of rape with the arrest. Stolid Englishmen were literally aghast at what seemed to be a national scandal...
...feudal lord in a tribal castle, "with walls more than a metre thick," which is perched upon a rocky crag of the Jebel Druz.** It has been alleged that he regards the whole Franco-Druse war as having sprung up because he killed a French officer "to avenge the arrest of a tribesman who was the Sultan's guest." Since that time (1921), El Atrash has employed against the French not only his temporal authority, but the influence of the religious cult which distinguishes his fellow tribesmen, a mixture of various racial strains, as "Druses...
...Miriam A. Ferguson, Governor of this state, charged with enforcement of the law of the state, do hereby offer a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of any citizen of this state for violating the liquor laws who is worth, in property or money, as much...