Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greasy Thumb finally said he did know Ragen, but did not know who killed him. Then he got lockjaw again, and was duly taken away, under arrest for contempt of Congress...
Then he went on to tell how Rosenberg had planned an escape for the Greenglass family in February 1950, when the arrest of the British spy, Dr. Klaus Fuchs, had tipped the conspirators off to the fact that the FBI and Scotland Yard were hot on their trails. "Julius came to my house and woke me up," Greenglass testified. "Julius said Harry Gold was one of Fuchs's contacts, and that Gold would undoubtedly be arrested soon and that would lead to Julius. He said I would have to leave the country...
...News Agency (Communist) announced the execution of 96 persons in Canton and Kwangtung Province in a three-day period, some of them women students. The Wuhan radio (Communist) reported that in two weeks the Red army had "exterminated" more than 16,000 "local bandits." Foochow Reds announced the mass arrest of 247 "secret agents...
Minor characters were as sharply etched: a woebegone, moonfaced Puerto Rican accepting his impending arrest for perjury with a resigned shrug; an ex-Navy lieutenant commander, nervously eager to please, repeatedly and irrelevantly reminding the committee that he had been wounded in the South Pacific; a prim Fire Department receptionist who kept painstakingly correcting his own grammar...
...formal statement, Dean Neidlinger said, "In view of testimony that these students were unnecessarily mistreated by police officers after their arrest was fully accomplished, the accounts of this incident in the press are being carefully checked and a thorough investigation conducted...