Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Straton has been a vigorous foe of the modern dancing, through his investigations causing the arrest of several proprietors of New York dancing palaces. He believes that a dance craze has fallen upon the American people, and following along in its wake are drinking and licentiousness...
...deputies, in terror of arrest with the lapse of their parliamentary immunity, fled in all directions. Deputy Thomas cropped his radical locks Hindenburg style, but was recognized by the police and only escaped by hiding in a coal heap...
...Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General of the United States, to prosecute properly violators of the Sherman anti-trust act and the Clayton act against monopolies and unlawful restraint of trade; the alleged neglect and failure of the said Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General of the United States, to arrest and prosecute Albert B. Fall, Harry F. Sinclair, E. L. Doheny, C. R. Forbes and their co-conspirators in defrauding the Government, as well as the alleged neglect and failure of the said Attorney General to arrest and prosecute many others for violations of the Federal statutes...
When John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, learned that Dr. Potter was planning to radio-broadcast his principles he cried : "If that fellow Potter keeps on I'll have to get out a warrant for his arrest on a charge of grand larceny. He cribbed my idea of a Christian hotel and, like young Lochinvar, ran boldly away with it before we even had time to catch our breath after the first announcement of the project. Now he has just dodged into the limelight with the idea of broadcasting the Bible. We originated this at Calvary...
...masterful sort of retaliation or else a most dastardly trick. These special raiding squads are composed exclusively of "young detectives apparently chosen for their ability to look and act the college boy on a lark"; they trickle insidiously into the doomed "chop house", purchase several drinks and then ungratefully arrest the waiters and the proprietor...