Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese proprietor of a nasty little place called the Lily Garden. Although the scene is London's Chinatown, his New-Yorkese is explained by having him a transplanted U.S. under-worldling. The plot concerns his love for Toni (Jean Parker) whom he protects when a constable wants to arrest her for stealing a watch; a love that persists in spite of her almost immediate attachment to the young proprietor of a dog store whom she meets while taking a walk. The threat to these somewhat incredible proceedings is supplied by Miss Wong, Raft's Chinese sweetheart...
According to Isobel's mother, who hastily decamped from Germany shortly after her daughter's arrest, Isobel became terribly outspoken against the Hitler regime in the presence of a Nazi suitor of her younger Sister Marion...
...neighborhood but he would have been wiser to keep his political opinions to him self. The Bristowes were nobodies but they were on the right side of the fence, and they had a game-warden in the family. It all started with Clay Goodhue's arrest for snaring fish on his own father's property. That led to a suspended sentence and two fistfights. But when officers of the law came to free the family pet, Grandma Goodhue's caged red bird, shot guns were taken off the wall. The posse that had set out to hang...
...survey further criticizes the Civil Service Commission on the ground that prior experience is not as important as the Commission believes and that an examination of the character of the applicants is more important than the arrest records and answers to the practical questions which are learned from the Civil Service Commission, however, would review the methods of examination and guard against favoritism and political influence, while the police department itself would test the intelligence, temperament, character and physical fitness of the applicants...
With tempers taut the Government staged a grand "proletarian demonstration of Revolutionary solidarity,'' sent all Government employes and a total of 200,000 Revolutionists prancing through the streets of Mexico City with catcalls for the church. Spectators beat up a policeman who tried to arrest a marcher for shouting "down with this farce of a parade! Give us bread and schools and work!" Meanwhile Government planes bombed the Capital with thousands of anti-Catholic propaganda posters, touting, among other things, the marriage of a famed ex-nun (see p. 62). "The time has come," proclaimed President-elect Lazaro...