Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Premier Calinescu had courted assassination by suddenly starting to arrest throughout the kingdom, as "plotters against the State," German sympathizers with the Rumanian Fascist Iron Guard, an old-line band of native anti-Semite terrorists organized soon after World War I, repeatedly accused by "Little Hercules" of now receiving funds from the newer German Nazis. One afternoon last week, as the Premier was being driven home to lunch, a young woman suddenly shoved a cart in front of his car, which was forced to stop with squealing brakes. At the same moment up swooped two cars from which leaped masked...
...Biscailuz of Los Angeles County, Calif., said his vice squad visited the white, rambling Reiter residence and office near Hollywood. The Sheriff subsequently complained to Attorney General Earl Warren of California that the place was "an alleged gambling establishment," added that diplomatic immunity protected Prosper Reiter and prevented his arrest so long as he stayed in the consulate. "If the evidence warrants my doing so," continued Sheriff Biscailuz, "I am going to ask the Secretary of State of the United States to have the (Consul's) exequatur (credentials) . . . revoked...
...screws on before 1917. When it did, the results were accounted the greatest single factor leading to Germany's final collapse. The Blockaders under Lord Robert (later League-loving Viscount) Cecil gradually pushed neutrals into yielding belligerent Britain's right to have the Royal Navy arrest neutral shipping on the high seas, and "examine" its cargoes...
...supposed victim's head, worried authorities reduced the charge against him from murder to manslaughter, wondered whether they had a simple lunatic instead of a killer. Last fortnight Frank Dolezal hanged himself in his cell with a towel. Last week Clevelanders wondered whether another murder or another arrest would tell them that Sheriff O'Donnell had yet to nab the Butcher...
...four-year-old boy was torn away from his mother . . . his hand was cut off and he was left to die in the ditch." Another atrocity charged to Poland was the murder of a girl in New Jersey, in connection with which her Polish father, a clergyman, is under arrest...