Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Where the trouble is of a more personal character, the G. P. U. is equipped to carry an individual through the stages of arrest, interrogation, sentence and if necessary execution without going outside its own organization. For this reason it is said that "The Ogpu is the State." But as Josef Stalin controls both the Ogpu and the Government it is more correct to say that he is the state, or that in Russia there are two parallel states...
...wine, half a case of beer. At 3 a.m. 79 students were marched off to police headquarters, charged with disorderly conduct. Except for ten Dekes ("Mother of Jollity") whom it was necessary to threaten with a "night in the coop," the 79 made little or no resistance to arrest. Chief Student Councillor Merton Bell, a Kappa Sig, and stocky James O. Harrison Simrall Jr., quarterback, captain of the 1930 football team, a Phi Delt, and two editors of the Michigan Daily were booked along with the rest...
That night students made a public protest against Dean Joseph Aldrich Bursley, denounced him for the raids. But it was revealed that the warrants were issued following the arrest of well-known campus 'leggers,* including a freshman Law Schoolman who was said to be chief of the University beer racket. President Alexander Grant Ruthven heartily approved the police action, ordered all five houses closed for the remainder of the term, thus evicting 184 students. When the fraternities reopen their houses next autumn they will be on "social probation," that is, there will be no parties, no fun-making...
Following the recent arrest of eight undergraduates at the University of Kansas on liquor charges, the fraternities passed resolutions against drinking. From an anonymous band of scholastic vigilantes came an ominous letter to the Daily Kansan (student organ) last week: "To Whom It May Concern: . . . We, a group of eight students with the co-operation of an outside group, are taking it upon ourselves to see that these [fraternity] promises are fulfilled. . . . Watch your step" (Signed) THE GROUP OF EIGHT...
...liking each other, they make a bargain. They decide to go to Florida to spend the $20,000 he has stolen; when it is gone, they will commit suicide. In Palm Beach, Holmes still wants to kill himself but the girl wants to live. When police come to arrest the robber she has obtained some more money from another admirer and thought of a way out of their difficulties. The picture is bearable because of its handsome settings and because it is well acted. Best sequence...