Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis' plans regarding Steel, wanted to give him "some economic advice." There was a dinner in Alexandria. Shortly thereafter Harvard's Lee Pressman, the Resettlement Administration's General Counsel, was serving the Steel Organization Committee in a similar capacity. Furthermore, when sharecroppers' organizers following their arrest recently could not raise bail in Memphis, it was the U.M.W. which arranged their freedom for them from New York. Sharecroppers are Administrator Tugwell's gravest concern...
...limit is 45 m. p. h. At the other end of the section another officer collects the ticket, notes by the elapsed time whether the driver has been speeding. If so, he is given a warning, told the police may try to revoke his license. (By law police cannot arrest the driver for an offense so detected...
Queen Victoria's onetime page boy, Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, who today is the Socialist Baron Ponsonby, thundered at a Quaker meeting in London last week demands for the arrest of British War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper. Reason: Mr. Duff Cooper said fortnight ago that the European situation is "far more critical today than in 1914" (TIME, June 22). Cried Lord Ponsonby: "He should be arrested as a deliberate, dangerous and disgraceful scaremonger! He has shown himself to be a halfwit. The only fit place for him is Broadmoor! [asylum for the criminally insane...
...Georgetown, anchored four miles off the beach. Primed to nab the outlawed craft, port authorities sent U. S. Pilot Art Williams, in Guiana after an air search for Paul Redfern, to fly over her. When Williams reported she was indeed the Girl Pat, a police launch set out to arrest her. As it drew alongside, the Girl Pat's doughty crew of four appeared at the rail stripped for a fight. Shouted Captain George Black Osborne: "We're outside the three-mile limit. Get out or we'll sink...
...cartoon was less funny than the comments with which Dr. Abbot dressed up an astrophysical lecture in Rochester a few months ago. At that event learned Dr. Abbot, 64, told how a policeman once tried to arrest lanky Marine Biologist William Beebe for probing in a snow bank for a dead goldfish. He gave a whistling imitation of an Algerian shepherd boy whom he once heard while searching Algeria for a cloudless site for a solar observatory. He concluded with a baritone rendition of a sea ditty about "a ship that went for to sail with a whale...