Word: arrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans Out." Two days later, entering Yosu, the town where the revolt began, the government troops were much better behaved. The Communists' occupation of Yosu revealed the pattern they would like to impose on all South Korea. After arrest and murder of police and loyal leaders, the rebels took over all communications, banks, schools and food distribution. They established a "People's Committee" as the new government. The "People's Committee" announced: "Our two-point program: 1) to oppose, to the death the killing of our brothers, and 2) to get the Americans out of here...
Adolf Hitler had proposed some tinkering with The Merry Widow too. He used to see it as often as three times in a month, but he wanted Lehar to "modernize" it. Hitler's admiration cooled, and later Lehar was put under house arrest in Vienna because he had refused to abandon his wife, a "non-Aryan." At war's end, the composer fared hardly better with the Russians. When his wife Sophie told Red army soldiers that her husband's papers and manuscripts were priceless, they snorted "Capitalist!" and destroyed...
Double Trouble. In Manhattan, Andrew Sheridan, under death sentence for murder, refused to tell how much money he had made before his arrest: "It might incriminate me on my income...
...Japan's four major parties last week got together to bargain for posts in the new cabinet. Cynical Japanese newsmen drew up and published a roster of their own, made up entirely of high officials now held in Kosuge prison. Just then, police announced the latest Showa Denko arrest: Kosuge's Warden Ito was charged with accepting bribes from his Oh-mono to help them communicate with their colleagues still outside...
...MAORT on charges of "economic sabotage." The day after, Ruedemann and Bannantine were notified that they had been expelled from Hungary. In a fast car, police took them from 60 Andrassy Ut to the Austrian border, unceremoniously ordered them over the line. It was the seventh day since their arrest. Six days later they were in Washington, reporting to the U.S. Government while wondering what could be done about the $25 million that American shareholders had lost in MAORT's seizure...