Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football game in 1925, Amon Carter, full of high spirits, paraded back & forth behind the Fergusons' seats crowing in behalf of the man who succeeded Mrs. Ferguson after her first term as Governor: "Hooray for Dan Moody!" Jim Ferguson offered $500 to any police officer who would arrest Amon Carter. The offer was not taken up. When he found the Fergusons had horned in on a party of his last week, Amon Carter stomped away, did not return to his box until they had gone...
...airplanes. After the suit was withdrawn, Hall returned to China to engage in further elaborate dealings with his fellow Chinese generals. Last fortnight he left hastily for Japan. At the port he was refused entry to Japan and sent back to Tientsin where last week he was arrested. Nanking's Chief of Ordnance General Ho Chu-kuo charged that "General Chan" once cashed a $10,000 check intended as payment for German pistols that were never delivered. Since U. S. citizens enjoy extraterritorial rights in China, the arrest was not made until the U. S. consul had formally charged...
Enlightened though many Chinese statesmen are, the Nanking Government got around only last week to issuing a formal decree by which Chinese generals, provincial governors, mayors and all other local authorities were forbidden to inflict on Chinese newspapermen who arouse their ire "summary arrest, torture or execution...
...failed to salute the Storm Troop's swastika flag. Smack!-a uniformed Nazi edging the other way down the sidewalk bashed Mr. Velz on the mouth. Smack!-he bashed him again. U. S. Citizen Velz's lips and nose gushed blood. Spying a policeman, Mr. Velz cried, "Arrest this man-he hit me!" "You can appeal, if you like," shrugged the policeman, "to our police lieutenant on the corner." "Herr Leutnant!" spluttered Mr. Velz, but the officer cut him short. "You did not salute the flag? It is always advisable to give the Nazi salute. Raise your...
...majority of our republicans, accustomed to journalism as debauched by the Hearst dailies, find the British newspaper a very dreary does indeed. Advertisements burgeon on the front page; there is everywhere a dignified and matter of fact taciturnity, a kind of well bred reluctance to arrest the attention which verges on the point d'honneur. Of recent years Lord Harmsworth, Mr. Pearson, and the intolerable Bottomley have made a hearty and sincere attempt to remedy this; they have told a great number of lies, often on important things, they have raved and stamped their feet and babbled in the true...