Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President signed a bill authorizing U. S. consular agents in countries where the U. S. has extraterritorial rights, to arrest and send home any U. S. citizen wanted on criminal charges at home. Thus by acting speedily the President and Congress won a race with the slow-moving freighter Maiotis, still maundering last week somewhere in the Mediterranean with its lone passenger. Henceforth Samuel Insull cannot safely land in such countries as China, Egypt, Morocco. ¶ To Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, the President sent a letter last week advocating passage of a bill taxing...
...secret fund which never appears in the budget and for which no accounting is made. With it the Government pays for its spies at secret work the world over. Because all nations are equally guilty of espionage, there is in Europe a definite technique and etiquet about arresting a foreign spy in peace time. It is not polite to charge a friendly nation with direct complicity. Secret service agents talk largely about "international spy rings," give a series of conflicting but highly colorful stories to excited reporters, arrest a number of other suspects of different nationalities and when pressed, blame...
...Laborite Representative-at-Large from Minnesota Francis Henry Shoemaker bumped a taxi. When Charles Newman jumped out of his cab to protest, he said Statesman Shoemaker doubled up his ready fists, slugged him. knocked him to the ground twice, cursed him roundly. "I'm a Congressman! Nobody can arrest me!" boasted Statesman Shoemaker few days later when he learned that Newman had sworn out an assault warrant against him.- Then he quietly slipped out of the House of Representatives, disappeared. Presently two Washington detectives appeared at Statesman Shoemaker's Capitol office. His secretary assured them that the Minnesota...
...Senators and Representatives . . . shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same. . . ."-Art. i, Sec. 6, U. S. Constitution...
...between the state police forces of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts; these five states are all connected by teletypewriters and cooperate whenever possible. Thus in the Millen case, after it had been found out that the fugitives were in the vicinity of New York, an arrest was easily made...