Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...downers to evacuate, 30,000 to 50,000 roaring sympathizers massed around the eight seized plants in giant picket lines and the defiant sit-downers sat tight behind their barricades. Two days later Chrysler followed General Motors' example by getting the judge to issue warrants for the arrest of the sitters and their leaders. This time it was not necessary for Governor Murphy to command a sheriff to ignore the court order. Cautious Sheriff Thomas J. Wilcox simply refused to budge. To enforce a similar ouster against only 100 sit-downers, armed with meat hooks and cleavers...
...Members chortled at the policy of Home Secretary Sir John Simon in not having British police arrest Sir Oswald Mosley for his flagrant, daily violation of Parliament's recently enacted law barring in Britain the wearing of "political uniforms" such as a black shirt (TIME, Nov. 23). "I have worn this black shirt myself for six weeks!" cried Sir Oswald at a meeting of his BUF (British Union of Fascists). "Nothing has been done to me and we Fascists are beginning to assume that this black shirt I am wearing is not in the Government's view illegal...
Vexed because the rich Los Angeles broker who had furtively married her took his mother, instead of her, to a party last New Year's Eve, emotional Helen Wills Love, 31, went to the party anyway, shot Mr. Love dead. Mrs. Love's arrest, indictment and trial turned out to be the midwinter sensation of Southern California. She was amply photographed kissing her late husband in his coffin, and during the trial one of the women jurors was removed for habitually getting drunk on liquor which she hid in the women's toilet. Fortnight ago, the other...
Efforts of Louis the Fourteenth's finance minister, Turgot, to build up an efficient national mail and freight transport service are shown in an "arrest" or decree, as well as many other Acts relating to the Postal Bureau...
...February 1936 the U. S. Supreme Court upheld the death sentence conviction of a smalltime crook named Gooch for the abduction of two sheriffs from Paris, Tex. to Pushmataha County, Ark. Kidnapper Gooch and a pal did what they did to thwart arrest for a series of robberies. In a scuffle preceding the abduction one of the sheriffs was injured in the leg, thus enabling the jury at Gooch's trial to recommend the death penalty under the Lindbergh Law. Gooch was executed...