Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground put key ministries into Communist hands. As Minister of Agriculture (nicknamed "the Kulak" because of his sleek, well-fed look), Nagy undertook land seizures and enforced collectivization. As Minister for Internal Affairs (police), he acted as cover for the Soviet terror which led in 1947 to the arrest of Smallholders Secretary Bela Kovacs, and forced the resignation of Premier Ferenc Nagy (no kin), the leader of the Smallholders...
More important to the French than the arrest of the arms runners was the identification of the arms suppliers. The name of the ship was the Athos, a former Canadian minesweeper under Sudanese registry. Her captain produced two passports, one Greek, the other Costa Rican. Seven out of her crew of ten were unregistered and looked as if they might be Algerians. After lengthy interrogation of captain and crew, the French triumphantly announced that the Athos had been loaded in Alexandria by uniformed Egyptian soldiers. The French government asked the Egyptian ambassador for an explanation...
...case dramatized the absurd extreme resulting from one approach to a problem that worries thoughtful editors across the U.S.: When should a Negro be so identified in print? The Brooklyn story ended fortunately in the baby's recovery and the arrest of Kidnaper Mary Jackson, 35. But in their reluctance to identify a Negro as such, most of the editors not only misled readers who might have offered important clues but also created the false, inflammatory impression that a Negro woman had kidnaped a white baby...
...Pinch. In Charleston, W. Va., hiding under a hotel bed to trap two men and a woman on liquor and prostitution charges, Vice Detective George Robertson got wedged under the springs, held out his badge to make the arrest, got unwedged when the bed was lifted...
Both Dunnett and Judd were employed in the Public Works Department at the time of their arrest in 1953. McCall added that Dunnett had been "employed as a bookkeeper for several months" and that both men had been employees since...