Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were simply told that they were being moved out into the country. But as the trucks drove through the streets of Accra, the officers in charge would order them halted at certain houses, would declare that there was something strange going on inside, and would then march in and arrest the owner. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah's Voice of Ghana told his people just what the mysterious roundup was all about. A plot, by something called the "Zenith Seven," to assassinate the Prime Minister and to overthrow the government had been uncovered, and the government...
Last night--in a peaceful Vermont valley--the police society destroyed the greatest attempt ever to symbolize Harvard-Radcliffe unity. The Kampus Kuties' arrest by the so-called forces of law and order proves that an authoritarian regime will take all possible steps to keep Harvard and Radcliffe separate and unequal. In behalf of that majority of the Radcliffe student body which wanted to lead cheers at Harvard, this newspaper must protest...
...self-aggrandizing athletes of the Undergraduate Athletic Council can only be condemned for their refusal to accept their Radcliffe compatriots. The University Administration, a stiff-necked, Puritan lot, cannot be chastized enough for the paternal prohibitions it placed upon the Harvard Band. The HAA, in ordering local constables to arrest any girl appearing on the field, has forgotten that Harvard is not merely a moneymaking institution...
Captain Frederick Houston '23, of the Vermont State Police commented, "Those girls gave us the chase of our lives. It was really heart-rending to have to arrest all those beautiful girls with their red and white skirts, and their megaphones and pom-poms. Those girls wanted very much to cheer at the Harvard-Yale game...
...Interviewed at their training hideout deep in the Green Mountains, their chaperone and captain stated that "the Kirkland House Arson and General Hooraw Society has offered to protect us with a squad of Pinkerton men, and besides, can't you see what would happen if some cops tried to arrest us right there in the middle of the Stadium? Gentlemen, we have faith that if such an outrage was threatened, Harvard undergraduates would not sit idly...