Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time Mr. Macfadden had been haled to court in years. His first arrest was in 1901, when Federal authorities got after the posters for one of his early beauty shows (a modest affair in tights but warm for its day). At that time the pure zeal of a reformer burned in Mr. Macfadden. He was but seven years away from his native Missouri. Like Theodore Roosevelt, he had built himself up from a weazened shrimp to a powerful athlete. He was as militant as any Irishman with an undigested dose of religion. His faith was physique...
...second arrest was brought about by that primate of prudence, Anthony Comstock, whose vestments Reformer Sumner inherits. Mr. Comstock only succeeded in causing the Macfadden beauty show of 1905 to attract mobs that nearly burst Madison Square Garden. It was still an affair of tights?a source, perhaps, of some of the rancor in Mr. Macfadden's charges of fraud (which brought him libel suits totaling four millions) against the 1926 beauty contest at Atlantic City, held with scant emphasis on costume, by eminent bankers and businessmen...
Perhaps there was more in it than met the eye, but most people set the grim facts down to coincidence. "Explanations" by learned psychologists held little water beyond the obvious likelihood that one man's suicide might arrest the attention of another man who had contemplated suicide for himself...
...have a Snook in our town and he is wondrous wise. He, Frank S. Snook, has just been appointed Chief of the State Department of Motor Vehicles. Snook immediately canceled 3,000 special badges issued to favored motorists, which are supposed to make them immune from arrest. Then he issued orders that "arrests shall be made in a decent, manly fashion, without abuse and without insulting-language or attitude, which occasionally has caused resentment...
...Chief among his writings to arrest attention of teachers and parents was Revolt of Modern Youth...