Word: arrest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nizam's powers were shorn, his ministers were under house arrest, but he would probably salvage his wealth and royal trappings. Kasim Razvi faced a dimmer fate. In a broadcast to his followers on the morning of surrender he said: "This is the last time I shall be speaking to you." Then he disappeared. The next day he was captured by Hyderabad troops. Said he: "I gambled and lost...
...Stranger (RKO Radio) has been rushed into the theaters ahead of schedule because RKO hoped to cash in on Robert Mitchum's sudden notoriety. No one had a right to expect the movie would be much good, but it is. The first Mitchum film out since his arrest for smoking marijuana (TIME, Sept. 13), it turns out to be a pretty entertaining comedy-drama...
...Hungary, the Ministry of the Interior belatedly announced the arrest of three leaders of the Lutheran church: Bishop Lajos Ordass (TIME, Sept. 13), Baron Albert Radvanszky and Sandor Vargha. The charges: disposing of "several hundred thousand dollars without the permission of the National Bank, and [selling] foreign currency on the black market...
Died. Sidi Mohamed al-Moncef, 67, mustachioed onetime Bey of Tunis (1942-43), who was deposed as a collaborationist by General Giraud after the North African landings; in Pau, France, where he had been under house arrest since...
...Kingpins. The day after their indictment and speedy arrest, six of the kingpin Commies went into court in New York City, put up $30,000 in Treasury bonds for bail and walked jauntily out (see cut). They were old (67), ailing William Z. Foster, a radical for almost 50 years, thrice the C.P.'s presidential candidate, now its chairman; shrewd, greying Eugene Dennis, C.P. general secretary, already on bond awaiting appeal of his one-year sentence for contempt of Congress (TIME, July 7, 1947); tall, Harvard-trained Benjamin J. Davis, New York City's only Negro (and only...