Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within 72 hours after Broker Verviers' arrest for guessing at 25% devaluation, Premier van Zeeland, having first closed all exchanges, was telling the Belgian Chamber and Senate that he planned to devalue the belga by a maximum of 30% if other nations will join Belgium in an international monetary stabilization pact. If they will not, then the bright blue sky is Premier van Zeeland's devaluation limit...
...monasteries and nunneries which dot the Rhineland and Westphalia, Nazi secret police last week burst in, searched abbots and mother superiors, monks and nuns. One venerable mother superior died of a stroke amid the raids. Next day the Realmgovernment, concealing all details, announced that batches of Carmelites were under arrest for evading Nazi currency control restrictions, smuggling out of the Fatherland some 2,500,000 marks...
...rumors that Jews had attempted to assassinate our Leader. In the ensuing excitement they demanded that Jews be punished by being beaten to death. In Franconia I alone issue orders. I have ordered the expulsion of one district leader as a disciplinary measure. I will order the expulsion and arrest of any member of the Nazi party organization who allows himself to be carried away by lawless impulses...
...plane about Southern Germany he had been haranguing his people, listening to their hoarse cheers, sharpening his intuition. About all the preparation Foreign Minister Baron von Neurath had been able to make was to persuade the Ministry of Interior with great difficulty, to release from jail and house arrest several hundred Protestant pastors locked up for denouncing Naziism as "pagan," Sir John Simon being the son of a clergyman...
...Vagabond puts on his hat and coat and slams gaily out of his room. He lights a pipe and strolls out along the parkway and up towards the Square. Sounds of revelry arrest him as he passes a pub on Mt. Auburn Street. He pokes his head in the door. Waves of noise beat him back, but a warm blue sign over the bar lures...