Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hopson had a good excuse for not appearing before the Senate on the previous afternoon : the House Committee had had him testifying at a secret session. If the Senate was going to try to steal his witness, Representative O'Connor threatened to have Mr. Hopson placed under protective arrest. Senator Black started backing water, announced that since the House felt as it did, he would preserve "the rules of comity," would not try to seize Mr. Hopson while Representative O'Connor was examining...
...Manhattan, searching a sidewalk ora- tor they had arrested, police found only a pamphlet, entitled What To Do When Under Arrest-One Cent, published by the radical International Labor Defense. What...
...gets a bonus. Of more consequence is the probability that they will fail to be surprised also at the contents of Steve Grey's story. The story, a death-house interview with an investment racketeer (Harvey Stephens) whom Grey's testimony has helped to convict and whose arrest and trial he has covered with breath-taking efficiency, is meant to afford the denouement of the film and, handled with more care, it might have been an exceedingly effective melodramatic twist. Unfortunately, Authors Tim Whelan (who also directed the film) and Guy Bolton built up to it poorly through...
...ground that under an obscure New Jersey statute of 1877 the company had participated in a lottery by transmitting chain telegrams. Last week in Chelsea, Mass. Western Union was cited for contempt of court because it accepted and transmitted two messages which protested the arrest of an obscure playactor and an allegedly suspicious character, thus offending the dignity of a district judge...
Last May one Richard Frey was arrested and charged with using profane language in a Chelsea performance of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty (TIME, June 17). Short time later one Martin Halabian was clapped into jail as a suspicious character. Presently the clerk of the Chelsea court received a Western Union telegram from the New Theatre League of Manhattan. It read: "Our National Executive Committee, representing 300 theaters, vigorously protests action against Richard Frey and New Theater players and demands their immediate release." Not long afterward Judge Samuel R. Cutler of the same court received an unsigned Western Union...