Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...priest, whose bishop had apparently not been consulted before the contest began, said that he had promised 75% of gross receipts to Promoter Clifford. But this was denied by Clifford, also under arrest last week in Cleveland. Post Office Department officials declared they had warned Father Cox he was subject to investigation when his contest started. Since no one ordered the contest stopped last week, "Garden Stakes" employes continued sorting names suggested for the garden of St. Patrick's Church...
Mayor Hague expressing concern over the reports of "wholesale arrest and deportation. . . ." It looked, said the Congressmen, as if "officials of your administration acting under blanket orders" were denying labor its constitutional rights. Back to Montana's Congressman Jerry J. O'Connell, one of the signers and a personal friend of Boss Hague, went an answer the same...
Four years ago Farmers Archie Clark and Oliver Lankford of Kaskaskia, involved with a group of Missouri farmers in a title dispute over a pasture in the Commons, were arrested for trespassing by Sheriff Henry Drury of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., clapped into his jail for seven days. Farmers Clark and Lankford, charging the complainants and Sheriff Drury with false arrest on the ground that they were arrested in Illinois and jailed in Missouri, last week got their $200,000 damage suit before Judge Moore. The defendants produced some witnesses old enough to recall how the river had changed its course...
University Hall has told the police not to arrest any well-dressed men they see slinking along Massachusetts Avenue with hats pulled over their eyes and a habit of dodging into alleys at the sight of an undergraduate. Before putting the cuffs on any of these shy, furtive men the police must make sure whether they are ex-members of the Curley administration or the Harvard faculty hiding from students who have study-cards to be signed...
...There were also photostats of the signatures of certain Cabinet Ministers, a list of Cabinet Ministers and legislators marked for arrest at the outbreak of the rising, a file detailing meaus of seizing garages and busses belonging to the Paris street-bus system and municipal garbage trucks, to be converted into offensive weapons, plans to seize the supply of arms stored at the Mont Valérien fortress, and so forth...