Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring of 1945, the FBI had its lines all set for Philip Jaffe, the editor of the pro-Communist magazine Amerasia, and was about to arrest him. Then one day, John Stewart Service, a lean-jawed, young State Department foreign service officer just back from China, walked into Jaffe's hotel room in Washington and into the range of FBI microphones. Service lent Jaffe a sheaf of State Department reports on China, some stamped "secret" and "confidential." In four separate hotel-room sessions, he talked to Jaffe at great length about U.S. policy in China, twice cautioning Jaffe that...
...were confronted by 5,000 police and soldiers, reinforced by 5,000 nationalist hoodlums. Stones flew, bayonets flashed and tear-gas shells popped for five hours; when the Tudeh mob finally broke, a police colonel had been killed, eight of the rioters lay dead, and hundreds more were under arrest. While the police looked the other way, Mossadegh's huskies, led by a cheery thug nicknamed "Brainless," methodically sacked two Tudeh newspaper offices, then systematically did the same to seven anti-Communist papers opposed to Mosadegh...
Unfortunately the arrest came before the phony King, an 18-year-old medical student named Hugo Engels, could make his supreme gesture-a speech proclaiming a full day's holiday for the school...
...arrest, Whitney told police that he had left college because he had run out of money, and wanted to be able to return. Bergin, an Eliot House resident, claimed that he wanted enough money to buy a car and have "big weekends...
...rubber workers struck. They made no wage demands, asked only for protection. Management's answer was to declare a 15-to 24-hour daily curfew to control all movement in & out of the area. During the curfew planters' patrols would fire at any moving thing, arrest anyone at large in the 50,000 acres of idle plantations. With order thus restored, 2,200 rubber workers last week decided that they could safely go back to work. But six weeks without any rubber production had cost $500,000 in production and wages...