Word: arresters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miss, the point the Supreme Court missed, the point our legislators miss is so elementary that their refusal to grasp it must be disingenuous. Why should the divorce of our civil service from politics stop just on the threshold of social utility? Why should every office sufficiently exalted to arrest the interest of a capable man, or well paid enough to support him, remain in the grab bag of our party soothsayers? Why should the honest ambition of those men in our civil service who are able, but are declassed in the heinous hierarchy of our parties, be stified...
...clock last Monday evening Sergeant Fulgencio Batista and other enlisted men of Camp Columbia, Army post where the revolution against the Machado regime originated, called upon their officers, politely asked some to submit to arrest, others to go to their homes. The officers complied. Sergeant Batista became "chief of staff" of a revolt which swiftly spread to Army outposts, to the Navy, to the rural guards. Under the full moon enlisted men rushed machine guns to significant Havana corners. Civilian Havana slept. No one was known to have been killed as immediate result of the new, non-commissioned officers...
...last year for embezzlement, the Federal Government last week was trying its powerful hand at getting Samuel Insull, Chicago's runaway utilitarian, out of Greece on criminal bankruptcy charges. Into his suite at Athens' swank Grande Bretagne Hotel marched Greek policemen with an order for his arrest. Fugitive Insull, aged 73, lost his temper, sputtered and fumed while his rooms were being searched, his papers seized. Day prior he had told the Athens correspondent of the New York Sun that he "never felt better." By the time he reached police headquarters he complained of being a sick...
...channels. Last week in Athens Mr. Harness firmly declared that the Greek Court of Appeals had no right to pass on the substance of the Insull indictment but only upon the legal regularity of the extradition request. In his pocket was a warrant signed by President Roosevelt for the arrest of Fugitive Insull whom Forest Harness was ready to escort home like any common crook...
...such action was taken. Next morning the grain pits reopened and prices promptly dropped another level lower: dropped and bounced. They mounted rapidly and closed with substantial gains for the day. Thereafter they swung up and down, but neither sudden disaster nor abrupt boom followed. Cause of the arrested fall was guesswork. Some attributed it to talk of the formation of a $50,000,000 to $75,000,000 pool (President Peter B. Carey of the Board of Trade admitted a pool had been discussed) to buy up "distress grain" which threatened the market-the holdings of speculators caught...