Word: arrest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nebraska, a bill to make destruction of bottles, during arrest, evidence of violation of prohibition laws...
...trown on anything fast. In fact an ordinance has been passed forbidding express trains, which customarily go through the town at a sixty or ninety mile pace, to exceed twelve miles an hour within town limits. What is more the train crew violating this rule will be liable to arrest, fine, or imprisonment. The mayor, popularly known as "the policeman's friend" is determined to show himself worthy of his office, even at the expense of his nickname. He has announced his intention of stationing a policeman at the crossing to enforce the ordinance. When the police force of Pleasantville...
ISLE OF PINES: American citizens protested because on Lincoln's Birthday Cuban police threatened to arrest anyone flying the American flag. The status of the island, taken from Spain in the Spanish-American War, never has been decided. Doubt still exists as to whether it is a possession of the United States or of Cuba...
Following on the heels of the virtual downfall of Terrigiani, head of the Grand Orient Order of Masons in Italy, who was reduced to a position of political impotence by the recent Fascista decree denying political rights to the Masons, comes the news of Serrati's arrest. Menotti Serrati is the editor of Avanti, most radical newspaper of the Socialist party. His arrest for plotting against the safety of the state is considered a vindication of Mussolini's recent threat that he would carry his war against Bolshevism into the enemy's camp...
Mary MacSwiney, widow of the Mayor of Cork: "Since her arrest by Free State soldiers on Feb. 13, Annie MacSwiney has been on a hunger strike and is getting very weak. So I cabled my brother-in-law in New York: 'Notify friends in United States to protest...