Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend of dictatorships, the "guillotine" (which must be voted anew for each of the government's "fundamental laws") made Premier Azana first cousin to a dictator. Dictators breed revolution. Manuel Azana well realized that fact and moved to forestall it by ordering the arrest of all army officers whose loyalty to the Republic is in doubt. Chief prisoner was General Manuel Goded. After the fall of the monarchy two years ago General Goded was in high Republican favor for having started a plot to oust Dictator Primo de Rivera in 1929, for having told King Alfonso that his troops...
Firmly believing in his innocence, he protested the action and is understood to have resorted to physical violence in an effort to defend his position. The affair was finally settled and although the officers threatened arrest and removal from the train it is believed that he was released...
...Armonk, N. Y.. William Briggs, farmer, refused to get out of bed for police officers who had come to arrest him, was wrapped in a blanket, dumped in front of a Justice of the Peace, sentenced to four months, 25 days, for beating his wife over the head with a live chicken...
...campaign headquarters. Last January he again traveled abroad where some statesmen mistook him for an emissary of the President-elect. In the Senate the cry was raised that he was a Roosevelt "undercover man" peddling the idea of debt cancellation to Europe. Indiana's Robinson even demanded his arrest under the Logan Act of 1799. Such alarms were promptly spiked by Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Bullitt and the State Department. All that Ambassador Mellon could report was that "reliable eyewitnesses have seen Mr. Bullitt leaving No. 10 Downing Street...
...know how to handle Jews. I'm another Hitler." Then he punched Cohen in the eye. knocking him to the floor. Soon Shoemaker's doctor came & sewed up Cohen's face. Next day Cohen tried in vain to get a warrant for Shoemaker's arrest on charges of assault & battery. First, Shoemaker agreed to waive his Congressional immunity and stand trial. Later he changed his mind. Said he: "If it were for myself alone, I wouldn't hesitate for I could beat the case without trouble. But a number of the members [of the House...