Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calmly did Assistant Secretary Jahncke's immediate predecessor, Theodore Douglas Robinson, take an arrest and confiscation which he underwent last week at Nogales, Mexico. Mexican customs authorities found $320 in Mexican gold coinage among Mr. & Mrs. Robinson's belongings, accused them of smuggling gold out of the country-an act forbidden by presidential decree. Mr. Robinson protested that he was about to have it changed into U. S. money, refused to give up the gold. Whereupon he was arrested, later released. He put the matter in the hands of the local U. S. Consul, crossed the border irate...
...statement has been issued by Cambridge police authorities warning all students who are driving cars without state licenses that they are liable for arrest if they do not immediately register their automobiles according to Massachusetts Laws. When a person becomes a student of Harvard he automatically becomes a resident of the State of Massachusetts and must procure Massachusetts automobile tags at once, police officials stated...
...Columbus. Ind., Herschel Olmstead, 17, signaled a passing automobile for a ride. Sheriff Alonzo Fitch, on his way to arrest Herschel Olmstead for stealing a wristwatch, told him to climb in, took him to jail...
...announced that he had beea looking into the affairs of Metal & Mining Shares for some months. Gradually grave irregularities were disclosed. By the end of last week Assistant Attorney-General Washburn had made at least three disclosures of so grave a nature as to justify talk of warrants for arrest, indictments. Metal & Mining Shares had falsified an earnings report by which it showed $324,000 profit for the first half of the year. The list of investments which it reported was likewise falsified. The high-grade bluechips said to constitute the $6,000,000 portfolio had been syphoned out, many...
Spain's Alfonso XIII ordered crown warrants issued for arrest on charges of lese-majeste of leaders of the "Republican Alliance," new and threatening federation of the largest of the 22 little Spanish "splinter parties" which have raged impotently for a Republic...