Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a resolution ordering the arrest of Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia, friend of Senator-suspect Vare, for refusal to answer questions on campaign funds...
...York, Pa., one Joseph Hantz, bum, was arrested for trespassing. Hearing of this arrest, L. D. Hantz, Assemblyman, no relative but proud of the name of Hantz, went to court to plead for Joseph. When his pleas were successful, proud Assemblyman Hantz gave slouching Bum Hantz the price of his fine together with a oneway ticket to Washington...
...without interference from the District Attorney. When Maya (TIME, Mar. 5) was offered to playgoers, some one of them apparently found, in its glum survey of a poetized prostitute, the touch of pitch. Last week the wardens of the peace, in the dreary discharge of their duties, promised to arrest any one who attempted to reopen the play after it had been removed from the stage. It was removed...
...from U. S. Czechoslovaks totaled less than $1,000,000 between 1914 and 1918. Yet with these sums and by his own pamphleteering and lecturing he was unquestionably able to create an Allied and later a U. S. mass-sympathy for Czechoslovakia. One successful move was to exploit the arrest of his own daughter Alice by Austro-Hungarian officials, for "people argued that when even women were imprisoned our movement must be serious. Throughout America women petitioned the President to intervene...
...Robert Malachi Crowe, lecherous Negro, was the villain. His Tribune want ad called for the services of a nurse. A Ruth Sampson answered the ad, and her he assaulted. Then he disappeared. The attack made an excellent Tribune story; the Negro's arrest would make another. But best for the paper's business office, if he were caught, would be the well-spread cry: The Tribune guarantees the integrity of even its want ads. . . . Truth among the agate lines...