Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...return of Joseph Caillaux for many years predicted, was almost the sole topic of conversation in the capital. It was, above all, considered extraordinary that he and Briand should be in the same Cabinet, for it was the latter who, in 1916, authorized the Italian Government to arrest Caillaux for giving vent to his Germanophile credo, thereby endangering France's alliances, or so it was said...
Three pickpockets went on business to a Jewish synagog in Manhattan. Pickpocket Levine (Jewish) warned Pickpockets Alternaro and Presco (Italians) to buy Jewish Bibles, which they did. The rabbi caused their arrest. "How did you suspect them," asked the Magistrate of the rabbi. "Alternaro and Presco took off their hats in the synagog," replied the rabbi...
...first evidences of the reported drive were the arrests of Philip Smith of Revere, an alleged bootlegger, Philip C. Tobey of Dorchester, his taxi-driver, as they were delivering a consignment of liquor to a club on Friday night. The Federal agents, however, disclaim any part in this arrest, and it was later found that it had been by local agents. Reports that Federal officers were actively engaged Saturday morning at the subway rotunda in opening suspicious suitcases. Commissioner Potters denied last night. "No, we aren't making a special drive to clean up Cambridge," he said...
...third degree" is the name popularly given to the extortion by the police of information from prisoners by means of protracted questioning combined with lack of sleep and starvation. The "first degree" is the arrest, and the "second degree" the taking of a prisoners to a place of confinement...
When members of the Memorial Association heard that Borglum had smashed his models, they declared that it was "the act of a hoodlum, a vandal." They filed suit against him for $50,000, issued a warrant for his arrest, charged him with committing a malicious mischief. The constables of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia were furnished descriptions of mustachioed, baldheaded, large-eared Borglum and Accessory Tucker. The hunt began, continued for two days. Excited loafers from the depot declared that a man of Borglum's kind had boarded a train for Cincinnati; a garage keeper...