Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Lord Lloyd gave a tea party. He is 46. He won his D. S. 0. at 38. Since then he has performed such bold acts as to order on his own responsibility while Governor of Bombay the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi, potent agitator. To Lord Lloyd's Cairo tea party there came an old and broken statesman who knew the British Baron's mettle. The 66-year-old statesman was Saad Zaghlul Pasha, leader of the Egyptian Wafd, a party which had just been returned to Parliament with a two to one majority. (TIME, June...
...trial proceeded a big-boned, fiercely-bearded, swarthy prisoner was brought forward. Though he had the air of a proud and unrepentant brigand, he had been, up to the very moment of his arrest, the respected Dr. Nardossy, Chief of Police of Budapest. He pleaded "Guilty!" in a booming voice...
...Thomas presumably rotates in his sepulchre during a lively scene wherein the Virgin Queen's bailiffs attempt to arrest Jack, knock him senseless, and are then set upon by Kate with such vigor that she is eventually overpowered in a state described as "mother naked...
...when he stood on the mudguard of a red police-car reading a paper to a group of picketers. That paper was a copy of the Riot Act, which provides that any assemblage that hears this act read to them must disperse within an hour or be liable to arrest. Sheriff Nimmo, a fox-faced man in spectacles, read in a loud voice. The crowd began to move away; some did not move fast enough, were stimulated with prodding clubs. Men began to hurry, fell over one another; women screamed; a squad of motorcycle police cleared...
...arrest of Norman Thomas, socialist and clergyman, at Garfield, N. J., for attempting to address an orderly gathering of strikers on private property marks the culmination of the reign of frightfulness in Bergen County, scene of the so-called Passaic strike. The methods by which Mr. Thomas was seized are typical of those adopted by the police, probably at the instigation of the mill ownrs...