Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparent unfriendly attitude of the committee," quavered he, "and the unfair attitude it has shown to me and to members of my organization, I deem it my duty to say that I shall no longer attend these committee meetings. ... I do not propose to come back again except under arrest. . . . Goodby, gentlemen." With this astonishing defiance of the U. S. Congress, the oldtime country doctor clapped on his sailor straw, turned his back on the committee, marched out of the room and into a waiting taxi which whizzed him out of sight. Martyr or Fool? Too dazed to move...
...TIME, May 11, you refer to the arrest of Representative Marion A. Zioncheck in Shallotte...
...Karpis' wallet at the time of his arrest was $80, in the Karpis car a rifle, in the apartment, three .45 calibre revolvers...
...Elisha Francis Riggs, chief of the insular police and personal friend of Senator Tydings. Last week six Puerto Rican policemen and officers were indicted for the murder of the two Riggs murderers, who were mysteriously shot down in the police station when they tried to seize arms after their arrest. Such events, however, were by no means crucial in a colonial regime which has bungled along for almost 38 years...
Because constables at a place called Elkton, Md. had dared to snap handcuffs on the aristocratic wrists of Iran's Minister Plenipotentiary, the Great Ghaffar Khan Djalal, arrest him for speeding, all diplomatic and consular agents of Iran have been withdrawn from the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). To Teheran went word last week that the end of insults was not yet. Though Iran's chargé d'affaires, Hossein Ghods, has already left the U. S. in the wake of his chief, the U. S. Customs was vulgar enough to suggest that Iran...