Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good fellow" goes the rounds, selling "imported" cloth, encyclopedias, or sundry other articles, and incidentally trying to draw students into gambling games. In the past such persons have usually succeeded in getting out of Cambridge before the police have discovered their presence; if notified at once, the authorities could arrest the swindlers and punish them under...
...Department, the extended list of its illegal practices compiled by such lawyers as Zachariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, and Dean Pound of the Law School, cannot fail to arouse the suspicion that "where there is smoke there is fire". Specifically, the Department is charged with wanton destruction of property; arrest without warrant; illegal imprisonment without trial; cruelty, torture, and "third-degree" methods--all employed against aliens and persons of foreign birth who are not cognizant of their rights under the American law. In particular, as regards the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the Department stands accused of gaining a conviction by means...
...fact of the matter is that Illinois finds herself in the peculiar position of the policeman who ought to arrest his brother but who hasn't the heart. The Honor System has existed for one year at that university and it is obvious from the recent occurrence that its position is by no means assured. Here again we find the system existing without the whole-hearted support of the upper classes. The students in the case were popular in university circles and one of them had recently been pledged to an honorary class society. When they were discovered cribbing...
...Food," he said, "is the one matter of vital importance to Europe. It is indeed reaching the continental countries at present, but it is doubtful whether it is yet arriving in quantities sufficient to arrest the spread of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The American people must be made to realize that the infant republics of Europe are in the dire need of our aid, and that far from the armistice and treaty having brought about the success of the cause for which we were struggling, they rather added to the responsibilities of the Allies and particularly of America...