Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Others, at night, lit torches from their fires, set ablaze piles of sugar cane over wide-stretching fields. All about the district, thousands of tons of cut cane lay spoiling. The Governor General pondered, considered the arrest of strike-leaders, sought for new ways to end the strike...
...assemble a quorum; many a missing Senator would like to hear Senator Ashurst; perhaps we can get some business done," suggested Senator Neely of West Virginia in effect. So an order was adopted, authorizing Sergeant-at-Arms David S. Barry* to arrest absentees. Mr. Barry and five assistants scurried to telephones, told Senators to hurry to work. An hour later, he made the following report to the Senate: "Mr. Bayard could not come because he is getting ready to go out of town to attend a funeral tomorrow. . . . Mr. Caraway's telephone, it is said, has been disconnected...
...that "Rat" Lundin helped make Mr. Thompson Mayor of Chicago many years ago, and that Mr. Thompson made "Rat" Robertson his Commissioner of Health. Anything is possible in Chicago politics. Mr. Thompson is even asking for votes on the grounds that he will not interfere with saloons and not arrest "decent citizens for minor infractions of the dry laws...
...officers could hardly keep from calling me 'Boche,' all because I was born in Germany. At last, at a little dinner in Fez, a certain French captain got drunk and called me a Boche. I knocked him down, and got out before the guards came to arrest me [and I deserted to the Moroccans...
...represent popular interest, that fundamental issues are avoided in politics. He need not have gone so deeply into the question. The spectacle of men who are supposed to represent the interests of a nation acting in a manner which on the street would make them liable to arrest is not edifying. Nor is it surprising that a well-fed public does not pay much attention to them except as objects of amusement. The great danger is that the majesty of the law will suffer from the melee of the legislature...