Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Untimely. In Brooklyn, veteran Pickpocket Samuel Hemphill complained bitterly over his arrest "just at the beginning of the season," explained: "You can't make a cent all winter; people are so bundled up with coats you can't get to them...
Last week, 55 years later, provincial authorities at the same frontier faced a similar problem. For the third time in as many weeks, small groups of Indians had stepped across the border in deliberate violation of colonial "ghetto" laws. Sixty people were arrested; but police pointedly failed to arrest the leader. South African authorities had no desire to martyrize anybody with his name...
...hospital with his arm braced in a traction apparatus, a staggering total of $126,900 was offered ($100,000 of it by the U.A.W.) for the arrest and conviction of the gunman. Last week every cop, private dick, stool pigeori and neighborhood snoop in Detroit was working overtime, and half the population seemed to have turned amateur detective. But at week's end the assassin was still at large...
...Only Lesson. Men & women like Annedore Leber may expect (at best) to be under arrest within 48 hours of any Western evacuation of Berlin. Until that day comes-if it does-they can continue battling to show the Russians that their Nervenkrieg has been far from an unqualified success-and to remind the Western powers that they are defending in Berlin something more than just 150,000 acres of this debris-laden Brandenburg plain. Is there anything else they...
...person," says one law, "shall remain for a longer time than 20 minutes upon a sidewalk in such a manner as to obstruct the free passage of foot travelers," and anyone who is still lottering five minutes after being told to leave by a policeman, is liable for arrest...