Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dislikes the word inflation, prefers to call his relief policies counter-deflation. Business and banking have been spinning in a downward spiral?bank runs, heavy sales of assets to keep liquid, reduced security values, more fear, more runs, more sales, still lower values. It is to arrest this process that the Government has interposed R. F. C. on the theory that $2,000,000,000 will cushion the fall, stop it. perhaps turn it up in the opposite direction. Once it turns, however, it becomes to economic realists, inflation. Last week this purpose of the Hoover policy?the artificial creation...
...civic museums was the painstakingly wrought series of wax models showing great incidents in the city's history, scenes of the city as it was: Peter Stuyvesant defying the British, the arrest of Nathan Hale, Bowling Green in 1831, etc., etc. They were the work of Sculptors Dwight Franklin and Ned J. Burns. That the models might be as accurate as humanly possible, a corps of assistants have been studying books, maps and documents for four years. Sculptor Franklin is proud of the fact that his Nathan Hale is much fatter than the famed statue by Daniel Chester French, posed...
...trappings which were one of the chief compensations for the inadequate plumbing fixtures of the middle ages. The radio and the movie have finished the levelling process of democracy. The human sea of derbied heads stretches out far into the middle west with no crown or crested helm to arrest the eye. Can all romance have gone forever? In his soul the Vagabond can not believe this. Somewhere under a $19.50, double-breasted, peaked-lapelled coat he knows that there beats a heart-of-gold ripe for adventure...
...thief, Benjamin Barris, pleaded guilty on December 21 to grand larcency, covering five indictments. His arrest followed that of H. B. Clarke in Lancaster, Pa., another member of the ring. The latter gave information which led to the arrest of C. J. Romm, another New York bookseller, now in prison...
...Sentence may be passed in the absence of the defendant; only the substance of the evidence need be recorded. In Calcutta alone over 60 raids were made on Nationalist offices. Other raids v.ere made in Delhi. At the village of Sayadla in the Surat district, Mrs. Kasturbai Gandhi was arrested with Miss Maniben Patel, daughter of Vallabhai Patel, onetime President of the All-India National Congress, who is now jailed with St. Gandhi, and a third woman, who said she belonged to a wealthy Parsi family. All three were charged with inciting India's women to non-violent revolt...