Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican Senate Leader Watson was not leading as a good leader should, admitted that the slim Senate quorum might collapse altogether if Senator Watson tried to press the opposition too hard. They speculated to the President on applying cloture to the Senate debate, ordering the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest absent Senators as a means of maintaining a quorum...
...dealings with subject peoples which he laid down at Geneva last fall (TIME, Sept. 9, et seq.). Badly perplexed, for he has but the slenderest majority in Parliament, Mr. MacDonald said to a cheering Labor audience : "The men [Indians] with whom we wish to cooperate have had to be arrested for actions which, if they themselves had been responsible for a purely Indian government and had been faced with conditions such as those they have created recently, would have compelled them to arrest the people responsible for those conditions...
...escape from jail, and induced her to return to face a life sentence. It was Lavine who wrung a confession from Herb Wilson ("Preacher Mail Bandit") of two mail holdups and killing of a mail guard. Lavine it was who discovered the tell-tale bloodstains that led to the arrest of William Edward Hickman for the butchery of Marion Parker...
...seriously, loves to drive a car and drive it fast. In Ravinia not long ago a motorcycle policeman stopped her, asked her why, she was speeding. "Ah," she answered, "It is not me. It is this car and it gives me oh! so much emotion." The officer made no arrest. He, too, was captivated by the charm of the modern civilized Lucrezia Borgia...
...Yorkers was it to follow the band of masked riders through the Black Hills, into stage coach holdups, battles with the Sioux, robberies, murders, escapes-always with dashing Deadwood Dick as the hero. Heard once more was Deadwood's "wild, sardonic, terrible bloodcurdling laugh-'Ha, Ha, Ha! Arrest Deadwood Dick! Isn't that rich!'" Also his ringing challenge, with the equally deadly Calamity Jane at his side : "'I've got the papers to prove my innocence...