Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tongue the hatchet had slipped out of the Privy Councilor's voluminous silk sleeve, split Li's head and vanished into the sleeve again. Grave, bland and without a bloodstain showing, Privy Councilor Chen strolled out of the hotel past Japanese police too flabbergasted to arrest...
...morning in Athens, Mr. Insull sat on a balcony sipping a cup of strong Turkish coffee. He may have noticed a number of cars around his hotel, the drivers all eying him. Finally an Athenian policeman emerged from one car and approached Mr. Insull, informed him he was under arrest. The American Legation had asked Athenian police to detain him in order to give the U. S. State Department time to decide whether or not to ask Greece, with which no extradition treaty has been completely established, to send Mr. Insull back to face U. S. justice...
...demanded his voluntary return to Chicago. He flatly refused. Next morning he and his loyal friends Mr. & Mrs. William Barker of Highland Park, Ill. who had arrived in their car during the night to be with him, motored to Toronto to see lawyers. A Canadian warrant for his arrest had been issued, he was advised to surrender. At 9:30 p. m. he gave himself up to the Canadian police in the small town of Barrie, Ont. There was a brief hearing before a judge as lank, as gaunt, as curt as he. And then, through a driving rain...
John Guthrie Sutherland submitted to arrest, climbed into a third-class carriage, went to Brighton, got his contract. In police court he was fined ?12 ($41.50 current exchange) for needlessly nagging a train...
...foreign student arriving in the U. S. outside his nation's quota last week had sought to earn 50? at his college by rocking a professor's baby or washing dishes in a chophouse, he would promptly have found himself under investigation, subject to arrest and deportation. He might work in exchange for room & board or part of his tuition fees, but he could earn no U. S. cash. If he did, or if in entering he lacked adequate expense money-and immigration officials could make certain by demanding $500 bond-he had to go back where...