Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stalin crusher, now highly developed, is a system which begins by arresting a man secretly, blackening his name publicly in the press without announcing his arrest at the time, watching closely for any furtive reactions among the people, arresting those who react, and finally spiriting the accused off to exile or execution. Last week a beginning of this sort was made with the Church. Metropolitan Sergius and Metropolitan Vitalius, the two highest church dignitaries in Russia were the victims...
Moscow correspondents, refused official information, picked up from terrified Christians reports that not only the Orthodox but also the Lutheran clergy are being "ruthlessly purged." Although the Government did not admit the arrest of the Metropolitans no one in Moscow doubted that it had taken place. Stalin's crusher was once more at work...
...Bolsheviks now executed. Said she: "When they arrest someone in Russia, he's sure to be guilty, for in the Soviet Union they always investigate carefully beforehand." She heard a Czech Communist ask venerable Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, Soviet President, "Was the Red Army weakened by the execution of its leaders?" President Kalinin asked: "What do you think? Would it weaken any army to remove those who are confessedly guilty of weakening the faith of the army in itself? What do you think...
...Wall Street," twice sentenced to prison on grand larceny charges growing out of stock manipulations; of a heart attack, while waiting for a thorough prison physical examination; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N. Y. In 1930 an investigation of Woody & Co., his stock firm, led to his first arrest...
...magazine cover showing the bare, potted back of a man undergoing "suction cup" treatment will fascinate, arrest, sell itself to at least 800,000 people who see it on the newsstands this week. At any rate, that is the hope of Adman John Stirling Getchell, mainspring of the new picture magazine Picture...