Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judge Knight's only further interest in the case proved to be Playwright George S. Kaufman (Dinner at Eight, Of Thee I Sing). Depicted as the "Perfect Lover" in Actress Astor's memoirs, Kaufman had ignored a subpoena to testify. Before a warrant for his arrest could be served on him, he had secretly fled from Hollywood to Manhattan. "There won't be any settlement for Kaufman," fumed Judge Knight. "I'll put him away for a while to cool off if he ever comes back into the jurisdiction of this court! He could write quite...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Producer Irving Thalberg, Playwright Kaufman made no formal comment to the Press, but was reported by friends to have torn his hair and cried "I'm being crucified -crucified!" When he failed to appear as the subpoena directed, a warrant was issued for his arrest...
...lawyer who had surrounded his house with barbed wire and sworn to die fighting any invasion of his liberty, became a prominent Fascist, visited Lussu before his arrest. The Deputy asked him glumly, "What have you done with the barbed wire?" In reply the lawyer handed Lussu an old edition of a 16th-Century book, made him read the title. It was: The Ultimate Profession of Faith of Simon Sinai, of Lucca, first Roman Catholic, then Calvinist, then Lutheran, then again Catholic, but always an Atheist...
...display of the Farnsworth case in the Press as a warning to other spies that the U. S. is not to be caught napping. But in Japan citizens wondered nothing at all because in not one Japanese newspaper was there so much as a mention of Farnsworth's arrest...
...soldier thought of a valuable family portrait. Instantly the picture appeared on the wall in Algeria; the stupefied Frenchman not only saw it but handled it. He cabled his parents in Paris. Back came the reply: "Portrait inexplicably stolen this morning. Police at work and Sûrete announces arrest of thief imminent...