Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Esmond Ovey, British Ambassador to Moscow. In the Soviet citadel his Embassy flaunts life-size oil paintings of King George & Queen Mary in their coronation robes. In Moscow the Ambassador's young men never hesitate to express on Communism, its leaders and practices, opinions which would cause instant arrest for any but a foreign diplomat. Britons are not popular in Moscow...
...looked last week as though Soviet officials had taken quiet revenge. In still another drive to end sabotage in Soviet plants, the OGPU (secret police) arrested, then shot without public trial, 35 Russians. This the world took calmly, bat the next move was to arrest six British subjects, employes of Metropolitan-Vickers (electric contractors) and charge them with responsibility for a series of breakdowns in Russian electric plants...
...Harriman's honors, within an hour after Deputy Pinckley fled for fear of murdering him by the shock of arrest, a U. S. marshal took up his stand in the hall of the Harriman apartment and two doctors, one of them appointed by the U. S. Attorney, examined Mr. Harriman. "Coronary thrombosis," they said, "a very precarious condition." But the warrant was read to the patient, a U. S. Commissioner appeared, and Mr. Harriman, wearing a white hospital smock tied behind his neck, was arraigned in his bed. A nurse raised him up and, taking a fountain...
...There are two principal reasons for this; the arrest of immigration and the increasing knowledge of contraceptives throughout the country. Although the depletion of natural resources seems to offer grave difficulties, I think that there will be a greater output per worker. This will result in a much higher standard of living, providing we can put greater weight into our economic organization. There have been many developments, such as trade unions and clearing houses, to suggest particular cases...
...bluejackets and Marines, under the orders of Admiral Richard Henry Leigh-who had been shaken out of his Long Beach apartment but went back to bed as the shocks continued-patrolled the Long Beach area. At Long Beach, Marines guarded prisoners taken from the tottering jail. Only one arrest for looting was reported. People were still scratching desperately in the rubble for their missing and dead...