Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear from me by Saturday, assume arrest by Pineville authorities...
Following the arrest of a ring of book thieves in New York who were operating on the University Library and had taken rare books to the amount of $40,000. Library officials report that there has been a noticeable rise in the number of missing books which were secretly returned to the Library...
...Army has enormous stocks of arms. George ("Stay-Abed") Gilmore was sent to jail after his arrest in connection with the Cosgrave Government's discovery of one of the Army's secret munitions dumps. Last week Stay-Abed Gilmore and other members of the secret General Staff of the Irish Republican Army met near Dublin. Anxiously Belfast and London waited...
...that identification by the design is impossible for the layman. Due to lead content, however, their color tends to be darker than that of the true tokens and they can be cut more easily with a pen-knife. Anyone attempting to pass a counterfeit coin is liable to immediate arrest...
...corner in bustling Guayaquil were vendors with carts laden with confetti, streamers and chizguetes (perfume squirters).* President Baquerizo Moreno had given his own granddaughter, Senorita Rosa Piedad Baquerizo, to be Queen of Carnival. Let the people be gay. Was not that Liberal leader and troublemaker, Commandante Ildefonso Mendoza, under arrest? Above all, was not Ecuador the only country in all South America still on the gold standard, with a free market for foreign exchange...