Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fruit that might spoil in another day and baked it into pies, which she put on sale in the morning. Occasionally she would catch shoplifters, but, instead of turning them over to the police, she would give them a little sermon, always aware that the disgrace of an arrest would hurt their families. Her son reflects that feeling. "Even when I was convinced that Hiss was a traitor," says Nixon, "I couldn't help thinking of his family and his friends, and how hard this was on them...
...genteel Cape Province town of Grahamstown, 58 Negroes were jailed for walking in the streets after curfew (11 p.m.). In Pretoria, 20 singing Negroes and one Indian were arrested for marching into the "white" section of the railway station. Eight hundred nonwhites were in jail in East London; 800 more in Port Elizabeth. The nonwhites hoped their defiance would moderate Prime Minister Daniel Malan's "unjust laws" (racial segregation) by i) filling the jails to overflowing, 2) catching the eye of the U.N. The African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress recruited 10,000 "volunteers" ready...
...arresting Moroka and 16 lesser leaders, some of them Communist-liners, Malan's Nationalists plainly hoped to break the back of the disobedience movement. They were disappointed. The day after Moroka's arrest, 96 more smiling Negroes got themselves jailed in Port Elizabeth, another 20 in nearby Uitenhage. So many nonwhites were volunteering as prisoners that some jails refused to take any more...
...London, fed up with failures and humiliations, this was too much. At the very moment of the arrest, Great Britain had been one of the U.N. nations negotiating with Japan to secure for U.N. troops the same privileges (including trial by their own courts) that Tokyo has given the U.S. security forces in Japan. The Foreign Office called the 30-month sentence "excessive and unjustifiable." Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was off in the country, the weekend before his engagement to a niece of Winston Churchill was announced. He rushed back to London, a fact by itself enough to send newsboys...
...mudpie was hurled by an old friend of the family, Dorothy Wesley Bernie, widow of Ben ("The Old Maestro") Bernie and matron of honor at the Rose wedding 13 years ago. In California she filed a suit for criminal libel against Billy, and swore out a warrant for his arrest if he ever set foot in the state. Her charge: Rose was passing around an affidavit from her onetime Negro maid, Alberta Jones, that contained obscene, "horrible lies" about sex orgies that supposedly took place in Mrs. Bernie's home and involved her, Eleanor, and an unidentified girl called...