Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hosts of Democracy met in convention to dedicate themselves to purging corruption from the public service. We meet today for a rededication to the same service. There was corruption then, there is a saturnalia of corruption now. There were disgraced public officials then, repudiated by their party and under arrest; but today Fall goes unmolested on his ranch in New Mexico, Daugherty sat with Presidential approval in the Convention at Cleveland, and Daugherty's attorney was Chairman of the committee created to oil the steam roller of the worst boss-ridden convention of a generation...
When the Chamber had been aired and deliberations resumed, several Republican members were absent. The Lieutenant Governor ordered the High Sheriff to arrest them. He went and came back without them?producing a physician's certificate stating they were unable to attend...
Minister Finzi and Commandatore Cesare Rossi, both personal friends of Benito, resigned, stating that they wished to be free to defend themselves against "libelous attacks of their enemies." Editor Filippo Filippelli of the Corriere Italiano, Fascist organ was arrested shortly after he escaped from Rome. It was known that Finzi was the moving spirit of the Corriere Italiano. There followed the arrest of 17 more Fascisti. The Opposition fulminated against the Government, declared that Finzi was a grafter...
...alienation of the affections of the wife of one Ferman Dantes, who, like myself, comes from the Philippines. He avers that while I boarded with him, up to a few months ago, Mrs. Dantes and I became friendly." Julius Rosenwald, famed philanthropist: "Chicago newspapers announced that after the arrest of Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, alleged murderers, -a friend of the Loeb family-rushed to the office of the State Attorney; an hour later, after having hear'd not only of the complete confession but also that my own grandson was one of those marked for death...
...Adopted without debate a resolution directing the President pro tempore to issue a warrant for the arrest of Mai S. Daugherty (brother of the ex-Attorney General) and bring him before the Senate to answer questions in relation to the Daugherty investigation...