Word: dragnet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agent, credited with organizing the pro-Hitler "France-Germany Society" and with having directed a pro-German press campaign during the Munich Crisis. Left papers added a new touch by substituting the initials of recognizable prominent Rightists, instead of the conventional Mr. X, as having been caught in the dragnet. As stories grew to first-class scandal proportions, Premier Daladier stepped in, warned newspapers that real or imagery revelations of the Government's press inquiry would be considered penal offenses...
...Chin Joo Hip and Chin Joo Hip Jr.-in Butte. Perimeter of the wide circle of underworld associations of which Chin Joo Hip was the hub appeared to be tangent to an even more notorious crime ring. One of the four women caught by the Narcotics Department's dragnet was Mary de Bello whose husband, Thomas ("Tommy the Bull") Pennachio, is currently serving a 25-year sentence in Sing Sing for compulsory prostitution which he received after Special Rackets Prosecutor Thomas Dewey's roundup of New York vice gangs last year...
...Mephistophelean mustache. The strange career of Josef von Sternberg was just coming into its exotic bloom. Born Joe Stern in Vienna, Austria in 1894, he had risen from the cutting room, gambled his savings in a freelance silent picture, Salvation Hunters. Fame had come with The Last Command, Dragnet, Docks of New York, The Case of Lena Smith, Thunderbolt. He was in Germany to make one picture for UFA. He had been looking for a leading woman. He had one major requirement: she must have beautiful legs, and a minor reservation: he preferred that she be unknown. Marlene fitted...
Hitherto Japanese police have performed the greater part of Japanese thought control upon political prisoners. As in Imperial Russia before the revolution, Japanese sons and daughters of the highest aristocracy have been caught in the dragnet of police raids on radical gatherings...
Last week the U. S. Treasury Department suddenly dropped a dragnet across the land, snared more than 2,000 smugglers, dope peddlers, bootleggers and counterfeiters. Its aims: 1) to test the effectiveness of a nation-wide crime drive; 2) to train Treasury agents in concerted action; 3) to "impress the criminal element with the tremendous Federal powers against them"; 4) to show the nation that the well-publicized Department of Justice is not the only Federal agency that can catch lawbreakers. Pondered since last summer, the drive had been actively planned for a fortnight. One day last week the Treasury...