Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breathless question was asked and left unanswered last week in sweltering official Ottawa: "Can the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons arrest a Senator of the Dominion and lock him up in the Tower of Parliament?"* Reason such an arrest seemed likely was that Senator Wilfred Laurier McDougald of Montreal had refused to appear before a Committee of the House and was considered in contempt of Parliament...
Dashing in her automobile through Wyoming, Iowa at a speed of 45 m. p. h. Mrs-Burton Kendall Wheeler, wife of the Senator from Montana, was arrested, fined $12.50. Indignantly, ignorantly she protested: "My husband helps to make the laws of the nation and I am immune from arrest...
...with hundreds of Chinese selling a few radishes or a handful of onions or macaroni or rice, and peasant women with geese or chickens, butter, eggs, milk. The whole town jams into the square for the bazaar, and pickpockets do a rushing business. I saw the G. P. U. arrest 15 pickpockets in less than an hour...
...down, fled. Captured, taken to headquarters, Gangster Schultz begged for a sedative, said that he was on the verge of nervous prostration, asked that no camera flashlights be exploded. After he was placed under $150.000 bail (it was later halved, he was released) for carrying a gun and resisting arrest, U. S. Attorney George Zerdin Medalie announced that he was trying to bring tax evasion and bootlegging charges against the pale-faced hoodlum...
...President but even there there was no "whooping-it-up-for-Hoover," no lusty demonstrations, no hat-tossing. Careful planning by the Hoover bodyguard averted all unfriendly exhibitions throughout the trip. At Springfield 350 "hunger marchers" who planned to demonstrate before the President were kept off-stage under virtual arrest by the local police. Republicans comforted themselves with the thought that, as Alfred Emanuel Smith discovered in 1928, noisy receptions do not always mean big votes...