Word: arresting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scheduled 40 rallies because only two or three people showed up. At the Leuna chemical works, a rally was shouted down by workers who stamped, whistled and cried: "Free elections!" The nervous Communists alerted the whole 200,000-man East German police force, and ordered the arrest of anybody who shouted for free elections as "a saboteur, warmonger and enemy of the state." At Berlin, Molotov found it necessary to warn bluntly that the Communists would not permit another June 17 uprising...
While Sir Hugh laid wreaths and visited museums, some other travelers inconspicuously departed from Haiti. Senator Marcel Hérard, a political foe of Magloire, who had eluded arrest three weeks earlier by having himself smuggled into the Mexican embassy rolled up in a rug, received a safe-conduct from the President and flew off to Mexico. Three lesser oppositionists, like Hérard charged with plotting to overthrow the government, left the Panamanian embassy and headed for Cuba. But 25 others, caught by the cops, still languished in jail...
...contains many fine old chestnuts (such as George Moore describing William Butler Yeats as "looking like an umbrella forgotten at a picnic") and a few fresh ones (such as the same George Moore, affronted by a badly cooked omelette, summoning a policeman and saying sternly: "Go down and arrest [my cook] for obtaining money under false pretenses"). But most of the new material consists of Author Gogarty's telling a lot more stories about his bosom friend Dr. Gogarty...
Quickly, troops sealed off the Sultan's house, placed the Sultan under house arrest, then battled off enraged Druze tribesmen as tanks moved into the area. Police jailed the twelve top leaders of the Popular Bloc and the heads of the Bar Association. Said Shishekly over Radio Damascus: "These leaders exploited the liberal principles proclaimed by my new regime . . . Naive citizens in some districts went to the extreme of actually clashing with the armed security forces. This necessitated quick measures...
Last week Walter Thornton got 1,000% more publicity than he wanted. Two detectives from the office of Queens County District Attorney T. Vincent Quinn walked into Thornton's plush Park Avenue establishment and placed him under arrest. The charge: obtaining money under false pretenses in his model catalogue business...