Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first acts of Wladyslaw Gomulka, after he shot back into power last October on a nationwide upsurge of anti-Russian feeling, was to set Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Primate of Poland, free from house arrest. Like Roman Catholic leaders in other Soviet satellites, the cardinal had been taken into custody during the bitter Stalinist struggle to convert the 85% Roman Catholic country to the atheist Communism of its conquerors. Back suddenly in Warsaw, and instantly a national hero. Wyszynski set an example of restraint and patience to the faithful. In sermons and public announcements, he made the same pleas as Gomulka...
...completely new Civil Rights Act to punish state officials who "outrageously" mistreat persons under arrest...
...Cambridge City Council voted yesterday afternoon to offer a $500 reward to anyone giving information leading to the arrest of the person who caused the fires which razed three city churches this weekend...
...After his arrest in 1954, Chapin got a routine psychiatric examination and was adjudged sane enough to stand trial. One by one, eight Massachusetts psychiatrists pronounced him sane, although one said that the sullen young killer was in the "early stages" of schizophrenia. The defense tried to prove Chapin a victim of psychomotor epilepsy -not necessarily related to insanity...
...arrest abruptly halted Wagner's lavish cross-country spree, in which he used up all but $4,575 of the original sum. Among other things, Wagner was reported to have spent more than $1800 on call girls during the last five days of his freedom...