Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...either organization, objected specifically to having concerts at the old Metropolitan where the acoustics are suitable only for opera. New Yorkers accepted his word as gospel although he begged the Orchestra's board members not to let "this honest opinion carry any weight in their minds or arrest any negotiations if they still consider the merger advantageous to the Philharmonic...
Eminently respectable in Japan, political assassination is a patriotic cult. Last week the erect old Patriarch of Terror, angel-faced Mitsuru Toyama, 79, was safer than ever from arrest by Japanese police. For one thing his beloved Koki Hirota, "one of my best boys," is Foreign Minister. For another, famed Terrorist Priest Inouye, once a likely rival for the post of Japan's No. 1 guide, philosopher and friend of patriotic assassins, is now in jail. He inspired the killing of Japan's greatest financier, Baron Dr. Takuma Dan, and Finance Minister Inouye, to be carefully distinguished from Terrorist Priest...
...Instead, he looks as if he had just got out of a barber's chair. I want you to understand you will be supported, no matter what you do, just so you are justified. Make it disagreeable for these men. make them leave the city, make them afraid of arrest! Don't treat them lightly...
...juries to acquit. "No policeman is justified in using brutality simply for brutality." declared Police Commissioner Theodore J. Roche of San Francisco. "It strikes me," declared Sheriff Eugene W. Biscailuz of Los Angeles, "as a little bit theatrical to stage a strong-arm act every time you make an arrest." Only Denver's Police Chief George Marland would go part way with Commissioner Valentine. "Dead right," said he of the New Yorker's dictum that police should shoot first...
...ruffians took Editor Leach's wallet, containing $40, and his gold watch, chain & penknife which his wife had given him before they were married. By the time the editor recovered sight & senses his attackers had vanished. But he found a small address book which later led to the arrest of one of the hold...