Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were marched into a ramshackle building. Immediately the tension was broken, for we were introduced to General Semenov in person and informed that we were not under arrest but that a banquet was being prepared for us. The building was the village hotel which had been converted into temporary headquarters for the General and his staff. Later the General posed for me while I took the enclosed picture...
Last week's indictment was an indirect result of Torrio's arrest in 1936. Evidence dragged out of 100 reluctant witnesses by United States Attorney Lamar Hardy indicated that in 1933, Torrio's income was $150,000, that Prendergast Davies (now in other hands) had done a $4,500,000 business in 1934. Chief of Johnny Torrio's current associates appeared to be a brother-in-law named William Slock-bower. Said Mrs. Slockbower to reporters: "We never expected anything like this . . . I'm sure it's going to be a terrible surprise...
Fortnight ago. ran the mumbled story of one of the Negroes-Dr. Dudley Arthur Fields, representative of the Governor-General of the Bahamas in Great Inagua- he sent out an order for arrest of a native accused of molesting a young...
Whoever succeeds James McCauley Landis as chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission this fall will inherit not only old problems but a portfolio chock-full of new and zestful business. Milestones in the Commission's career last week were: 1) the first arrest brought about by SEC lawyers, and 2) the first application for reorganization filed with SEC under the Public Utility Holding Company...
...Arrest. For several weeks SEC has been investigating the sale of some 273,000 shares of stock registered last year by Trenton Valley Distillers Corp., a sizable company with a plant at Detroit, which is now closed. It was discovered first that the stock had not been sold through the underwriters named in the registration statement; further, that the company took $1 a share for stock which was at that time selling for $3 over-the-counter in Detroit. The difference was apparently absorbed by no less than four sets of middle men and at least two go-betweens...