Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrest of seven men, two of them Harvard students, while they were demonstrating for the release of Edith Berkman yesterday, brings up anew the question of "class-war" tactics. The action of Mrs. Tillinghast, of the Immigration Bureau, has been sufficiently antagonizing. By refusing to see the persons involved in yesterday's demonstration, she enabled them to appear as martyrs in their cause. She has, moreover, persistently maintained an unconciliatory attitude and to some extent denied to Miss Berkman the privilege which she has herself exercised of presenting her case to the press. The police probably added to the error...
...main reason for Miss Berkman's arrest was her energetic activity as a strike-leader whom the Lawrence mill-owners wished to get out of the way as soon as possible. Her affiliation with a left-wing union was the excuse, and the U. S. Department of Labor was the means...
...irregularities" in his books. By last week the '"irregularities" had been disclosed as fraud of the worst type. Then came two disclosures which shattered the last vestige of admiration which could have attached itself to the late great maker of matches. Disclosure No. 1, coming with the arrest of three of Kreuger's associates, was that the "irregularities" were not born of falling markets and reverses but began in 1925. Disclosure No. 2 showed Kreuger in a scene that might have been taken from a common crook melodrama...
Since Premier Lang is not exactly popular, the Australian crowd raised a Wild West cheer, massed around Hero de Groot of the Royal Hussars and menaced policemen who tried to arrest...
Sugar Scandal. To cap the crisis in Tokyo there broke half open last week the colossal scandal of Meiji Sugar Co. The police admitted, informally, that they dared not and did not propose to arrest the exceedingly prominent Japanese involved. They did arrest a former Deputy of the Minseito (Opposition) Party, Ejiro Miyoshi, wealthy publisher...