Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broke off diplomatic relations with the Axis in 1939. Later, when Maher began receiving visits from Goebbels, Mussolini's Balbo and their ilk, the British became suspicious and complained to Farouk. The King dismissed Maher, and in 1942 the British arranged to have him placed under "house arrest" for the duration...
...free world's alliance must stand, is not vulnerable to such tactics. Nevertheless, during the period of the Labor gov ernment, some serious cleavages did show themselves in dealings between Britain and the U.S. The important overall achievement of Winston Churchill's mission to Washington was to arrest and reverse the process of rift...
...more or less a law unto himself. To make good & sure, he had for 20 years bought a seat in Congress from one party or another ("I'll pay twice as much as anyone else," was his slogan). That gave him the comfortable protection of congressional immunity from arrest for such peccadillos as slugging impertinent policemen or beating up bus drivers. Over the years 76 charges, none of which had been prosecuted, piled up against...
...said the judges: to throw out Frau von Ribbentrop's contract on such reasoning would be tantamount to Sippenhaft. Freely translated, Sippenhaft means the arrest or punishment of relatives for offenses done by another of the family-an old practice of Hitler's and Stalin's. The court's order: Otto must hire Cousin Rudolf within two years, make him a partner in another two years. By that time, January 1956, the learned court predicted, Western civilization will no longer be scared away or horrified by the name of Ribbentrop...
After a 17-mile race through a mounting North Carolina blizzard, Mississippi's Democratic Representative John E. Rankin was arrested by a highway patrolman, charged with careless and reckless driving. Ol' John's futile defense: congressional immunity to arrest except for "treason, felony, or a breach of the peace...