Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Periodically she went to prison for shoplifting. Between her first arrest in 1914 and her last in 1930, she had spent eight years in jail. Between sentences she married Jaffray Davis, drug addict, who gave her the narcotic habit. Other men kept her living in style while she worked in a burlesque chorus. When in prison, she would send well-written logical letters to her benefactors, deploring her lack of gratitude, begging for "another chance." Once free, she immediately relapsed to her old habits...
...Havana, developed them with streets, sewers, watermains; that one Pedro Gomez Mena. in connivance with then President Zayas of Cuba, seized the land, formed Gomez Mena Land Co.; that Cuban courts had upheld the Barlow titles; that officers of the land company as Cuban Congressmen were immune to arrest and prosecution; that therefore the court orders against them could not be executed...
...went well until the publishers of Air Trails called Wings' attention to the fact that it was reprinting copyrighted fiction. The mulcted monthly immediately ordered Plagiarist Carter's arrest. After his apprehension, it was discovered that fiction filching was the most remunerative, but not the exclusive manner of his making a living. Two Manhattan hotels had $850 worth of bad bills against...
Back from bank to bank the counterfeit trail was followed. It led last week to an order bidding German and Swiss police to arrest on sight one Franz Fischer, prominent a decade ago in the German Communist Party, but of recent years a personage of nebulous though prosperous obscurity. "Franz Fischer has fled from his flat," read a succinct Berlin police communiqué. But a somewhat loquacious official said, without allowing himself to be named in quotation: "He was probably only a fence. The gang must have a big print shop somewhere, with a large staff of experts, or they...
During the Sacco-Vanzetti trial this law, which gives practical power of arbitrary arrest was exercised for the purpose of obtaining witnesses and under it teachers of sciences denying the creation of the world as described in the Bible and the creation of man are liable to punishment...