Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China (Harper; $3), and two articles in the Christian Century, Methodist Stockwell described what had happened to him and the choice he had made. In last week's Christian Century, the Rev. Kenneth J. Foreman Jr., 31, a Presbyterian missionary who spent 7½ months under house arrest in Kunming, attacked what he called the "sin" of Missionary Stockwell. He contrasted Stockwell with Vernon Stones, an English Methodist whom the Communists kept in solitary confinement for many months but who refused to make any confession of guilt...
...Richter said that he knew of a saloon being used as a front for a brothel, where prostitutes were caring for a homeless baby who had been left on the bar. Next day the Item guided police on a raid and front-paged the story of the baby and arrest of four prostitutes and the brothel keeper. Richter then told the Item that he could supply other information. Richter and Item reporters went to work, took a tape recording of an interview with a prostitute who said she had worked for people paying protection money to the police. The Item...
...power plant Yale police arrested a picket captain in the weekend's only near outbreak of violence. The captain attempted to halt the passage through the picket lines of an oil truck. When he resisted a police order to permit the truck to pass, a momentary struggle between pickets and police broke out but quieted with the captain's arrest. Last night he was out on $100 ball...
...Bhave suffered his first arrest for taking part in Gandhi's civil-disobedience movement. Thereafter he spent several more terms in British jail, serving a total of about two years. After India won her nationhood, through the bloody communal riots between Hindus and Moslems and through Gandhi's death, Bhave remained in obscurity, except for occasional newspaper articles carrying his strictures against money. To Bhave, money "tells lies and is like a loafing tramp." For a medium of exchange he favored scrip, showing the number of hours a person had worked to earn...
Salome concerns a liberal, John, who is stirring up the populace with his wild doctrine. John soon comes to the notice of Joseph McCarthey (to avoid legal action, he is called Pontius Pilate in the film) who orders his arrest. Tiberius Caesar, a former military man now ruling the land--the implication here cannot be ignored--does not intercede and so the liberal loses his head for the last time...