Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proudly records in his Congressional biography that his father, grandfather, great uncle, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather, were all at various times Senators from Delaware. Mr. Bayard is to speak. So is John Philip Hill, Representative from Maryland, who last Summer dared Prohibition Commissioner Haynes to arrest him for making grape juice in his cellar...
...sedition laws alone and often because the man was simply a member of the International Workers of the World organization. Senator George W. Pepper of Pennsylvania, who is certainly no radical on the subject and who has investigated the several causes for these men be placed under arrest, has stated that he could find no legal justification of their apprehension...
...personally acquainted with a man who was working in a war production plan in New England and who, for certain remarks he made, was indicted. He went to his employer, stated that he had better get his time card and await arrest, and he found that his employer refused to relinquish his services until the moment of his arrest...
...Chicago, a hermaphrodite, three-fourths female physiologically, who was simultaneously a wife and a husband, having married a man to escape arrest and a woman " to save her soul," received an ovation when acquitted of holding up and murdering a man. The individual in question appeared in court dressed in trousers and a blouse with low neck and lace collar...
...second place Mr. O'Brien implies that not only has there been much roughness after the games but that this roughness should be punishable by arrest. For the police can check unruliness only by arrest. As a matter of fact the objectionable element has in the past made itself objectionable more by voice than by "unnecessary roughness"-a case for ushers rather than for police. Only on one or two occasions has the exodus of spectators been other than unusually orderly. And for those exceptional cases public opinion voiced in the Boston newspapers has a more beneficial effect than arrests...