Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much dead wood has to be hacked away before the course of true justice can be made to run straight, he makes clear in discussions of the nature of crime, arrest, the jury, the judge, tricks of the trade, fool laws. Clinching his points with many a keenly human story, he reviews such legal circuses as the trial of Bruno Hauptmann (Author Train thinks Hauptmann got what he should have got but not the way he should have got it), a legal lynching like that of Leb Frank, who, though probably innocent, was convicted of rape by a Georgia jury...
Count Csaky said nothing. Tension grew in Hungary as Nazis protested against the arrest of 21 Nazi youth leaders...
...past nine weeks Room 475 in the ornate old U. S. Post Office Building in Chicago's Loop has been carefully guarded from the press. Three tired deputy marshals, under orders to arrest loiterers, watched the three entrances and occasionally looked into an adjoining toilet to see that no reporter had his ear glued to the door. Inside Room 475 a Federal Grand Jury was investigating the income of one of the biggest U. S. publishers, and neither smart young District Attorney William Campbell nor his Washington boss, Frank Murphy, wanted to risk a complaint that the case...
...Made punishable by death last week were such acts as: 1) publication of military information not made public by the Government; 2) destruction of material involved in national defense; 3) any action tending to "shake the faith" of the armed forces; 4) revelation of measures taken to arrest spies. Such offenses heretofore have usually been punished in times of peace by fines and short jail sentences...
...Manhattan, District WPAdministrator Brehon Burke Somervell, like his chief in Washington a West Pointer (lieutenant colonel), retorted with equal heat: "You can't strike against relief! It's fantastic!" (Columnist Arthur ("Bugs") Baer cracked: "Mutiny on the bounty.") He threatened arrest for anyone who sought to deprive others of WPA's benefits. He filled gaps in WPA's skilled ranks with qualified applicants from the city's home-relief lists, and by shifting skilled non-unionists from project to project. At the unionists he snorted: "If they'd all quit...