Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Possibly in order to discourage other Soviet spivs, the papers last week reported that a court had condemned to death a Red racketeer whose crime was on almost everyone's lips. Nikolai Kotlyar, alias the Lipstick King, amassed a fortune before his arrest last winter by operating a hot lipstick syndicate from the basement of his house in a Moscow suburb (TIME, Dec. 15). Through nine strategically placed accomplices in a state-owned plant at Riga, said Izvestia. Kotlyar in 1960 alone got hold of 59,000 lipstick tubes, which an underground labor force filled with homemade batter...
...telegram sent to 40 civic leaders last Friday, Niebuhr called for protests against McDew's arrest. Besides Niebuhr, signers of the telegram were A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; James Farmer, national director of CORE; Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP; and Whitney Young, executive director of the Urban League...
Yesterday Hartman maintained, I am right. And I don't feel badly about the arrest because the law is totally unjust...
...George Scott has a sort of destructive genius on the stage, he also has a constructive dedication behind it. He is the principal force in a project ambitiously designed to do nothing less than arrest "the gradual decline of dramatic theater on Broadway...
...causes: from his law office he has handled hundreds of cases-often without a fee-in defense of narcotics addicts, civil liberties and tenants' rights. Last summer he charged down to Mississippi as a Freedom Rider; he is still out on $500 bond after a breach-of-peace arrest. His fellow assemblymen, both Democratic and Republican, groan pointedly when Lane rises to deliver one of his long and emotional speeches. He clearly hopes to make his assault against Carlino a springboard for a try this year for Congress...