Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carl Rettich gave himself up early last week. With the arrest of the chief and 20-odd henchmen, authorities felt that the solution of the Fall River case was only a beginning. They planned to prosecute Rettich first under the "Lindbergh Law" for enticing Andino Merola across a State line to his death. But first they expected him to tell something about the disappearance in 1933 of his onetime 'legging partner. Danny Walsh, who, rumor said, had been stood in a tub of cement until it dried, then tossed into Narragansett Bay. Perhaps he could explain, too, what happened...
Brick Davis (Cagney) becomes a G Man (underworld slang for Government Agent) to avenge the murder of his best friend, shot by the confederate of a gangster he was arresting. The first half of the picture is a skillfully arranged advertisement of the Department of Justice school for training its agents, snowing Brick Davis becoming involved in difficulties with his teacher (Robert Armstrong), trying to attract the attention of a girl (Margaret Lindsay) who thinks she dislikes him and doing most of the other things which are part of the Cagney formula. The second half, when Brick Davis' schooling...
...Indianapolis, trying to arrest three blind men, Rex Overman, Charles Bennett and Ray Johnson, who had gotten drunk in a hotel room with two women, police had their faces clawed, broke one blind man's head open...
...pencil still in Naziland, furnished the world its first glimpse of the super-secret workings of Adolf Hitler's dread Volksgerricht or "People's Court." "As I stand at my window, seeing marching columns of Storm Troops," jotted down Simple Richard Roiderer in a notebook before his arrest, "I think to myself what slaves they are. A slavish loyalty to a bad cause and a bad leader! They represent the qualities of sadism, perversion and homosexuality that are misnamed in Germany today 'manliness'. "Honor: An 'honor' that delights in defending through brute force...
...hats," Cried Mrs. Van der Elst, falling on her knees. Later she said: "I pay ?12,000 ($60,000) income tax and I have a right to be heard by the Government. I am going to protest against every execution in England from now on. ... The Government dare not arrest...