Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When results of the doctors' postmortem were published (the bruises took two and a half typewritten pages to list), St. Louisans demanded to know: had the police clubbed Melendes to death? The Beaters. Newspapers dug up a photograph of Melendes taken at the nightclub shortly before his arrest, showing him gaily cavorting with a strumpet...
...evolution," seemingly, had reached the stage at which the Quirinal wanted to arrest it. From Bern came this report, based on documentary sources...
Benito Mussolini was under arrest and not under arrest; in solitary confinement and under house guard; seized while trying to flee Italy and seized in the Quirinal; held for his own safety and held for delivery to the Allies. If he dreamed of asylum somewhere abroad, President Franklin Roosevelt's warning to neutrals against such asylum shattered the dream...
...wise guys did not know that Ted Friend did not like New York: it was not lonesome enough. He says: "People should be lonely once in a while; it's good for you." He tried to escape to a farm in New Jersey. Even that didn't arrest his thinning hair, and it meant 80 miles of commuting daily. He bought the Lassen Advocate for some $25,000 and stopped commuting...
...Wheel of Fortune. If the ex-Duce were really under arrest, his political career had now run full cycle, and an old claustrophobia might be tormenting him. In his youth he had been a vociferous, stinging pleader for socialism and pacifism. For such views he had seen the inside of many a prison; he had come to loathe confining walls. In World War I his principles had shifted: he had become an imperialist and a nationalist; he had started on the path to lofty offices, an open balcony, spreading maps of empire and the windy vista of Fascism...