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When Soviet machinations in revolution-torn Sinkiang province brought an order to get rid of all "questionable" foreigners, the roundup produced seven individuals as mysterious as Serafimov, who traveled together until further machinations caused a further splitting up of their ranks. Serafimov's victim was a fastidious, ratlike Belgian named Goupillière. A murderer himself, Goupillière's face was "as subtle as a woman's, as ambiguous as a thief's," since it was divided by an ugly scar left when a mistress had tried to kill him with a pair of scissors...
...refused because of a "sense of humanity." Fed up with such melodramatic refusals of extradition as that by New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore in 1932 in the case of Robert Elliott Moore (I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang), Georgia prepared for a legal roundup. "We are going after any others the other States may be holding from us," vowed Governor Eurith Dickinson Rivers...
...contempt for racketeers. The chance to fight them was too good to miss. Big-Game Hunt-Prosecutor Dewey made one thing plain at the outset. His investigation was going to be unlike any other in the city's history. He was not going to head one more futile roundup of criminal small fry-petty thugs, prostitutes, gamblers and crooked policemen. He was out, he announced, to get the bosses. For his big-game hunt, Special Prosecutor Dewey sought a staff of assistants, young, fervent, able, fearless. He found his chief assistants in four of his onetime colleagues...
Both of the representative Twoks that reached Manhattan last week showed scenes of the most exciting event in the Eskimo year: the reindeer roundup into the communal corral. Dogs are chasing reindeer, Eskimos are wrestling with stray stags, animals are galloping wildly and villagers are slipping, sliding and shouting...
...anywhere, barred a mob of 30,000 Rightists from the cemetery where he was being buried. When the crowd gave the Fascist shout, "Up Spain!" Assault Guardsmen fired, killed five, wounded three. Forehanded, President Manuel Azaña ordered the Army and Civil Guards mobilized in quarters, ordered a roundup of Rightist leaders, jammed them into jails. Talkative Rightists had begun telling about a great Army revolt that was due any day and that was to have set up José Calvo Sotelo as President of Spain...