Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story that James E. Ferguson, as you stated, offered a reward of $500 to any police officer that would arrest Amon Carter, is as real as Cinderella and the glass slipper, and quite as untrue as the innuendoes in which your article abounds. It is doubtless true that had such reward been offered, the rush of police officers would have been far greater than that of the A & M line...
...arrest of U. S.-born Bert Hall ("General Chan"), onetime instructor to the air forces of China's Nanking and Canton Governments, for swindling a Chinese general out of $10,000 (Mexican) intended as payment for German pistols which never were delivered (TIME, Oct. 30): sentence of two and one-half years to be served in a U. S. penitentiary, imposed by a U. S. extraterritorial court in Shanghai...
...Alfonso, he fled to France in a monk's cassock. Later he made peace with the crown and nearly won himself a title through elaborate gifts to charity. Juan March bulwarked his tobacco fortune with banks, newspapers, a steamship line, and after the revolution won himself immunity from arrest by a seat in the Cortes...
...passing banner of the shock-brigade, the childish poster with its turtle or its steam engine, or the torn canvas trousers-are they not a thousand, thousand times more precious to us than Danton's brown frockcoat, Desmoulins' overturned chair, the Phrygian night cap, the order for arrest signed by the blue hands of Robespierre, the last letter of the Queen, and the faded tri-color cockade, ancient and light, like a dry flower?" So says Author Valentine Kataev. Capitalist readers might reply: easier said than done. Not all the conviction in the world will make propaganda into...
Thus spoke Adolf Hitler after a U. S. Federal warrant had been issued last week for the arrest of Heinz Spanknoebel, zealous fomenter of Nazi activities in the U. S., under a Wartime act which provides five years in jail or a $5,000 fine, or both, for "acting as a foreign governmental agent without notice to the Secretary of State." Heinz Spanknoebel promptly disappeared. Ships were searched at sea, detectives ferreted. Best opinion seemed to be that Nazi Spanknoebel was hiding somewhere among the beer kegs and singing waiters of Manhattan's Yorkville...