Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hoover's men were trained to physical fitness, but spent most of their time digging through the dusty files of bankruptcy and antitrust cases. They had no power of arrest, no authority to carry guns...
...selling bananas." Three months ago a police bigwig admitted that press charges against Luciano were "pure inventions." Lucky returned the compliment. "Italy has one of the best police forces in the world," said he, "and if they had anything on me, they'd arrest...
Hard Work. In Denver, police reached the scene of the crime in time to arrest Warren McWilliams, who had worked so long and so hard trying to crack a safe that he finally fell asleep...
...week completed its review of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty's life imprisonment sentence. Said Presiding Judge Peter Janko: "There is not the slightest doubt that Mindszenty should have been sentenced to death." The tribunal, however, let the life sentence stand because "the case lost its original importance with the arrest arid sentencing of the cardinal. . . The Catholic masses calmed down...
Liberals the country over protested their leader's arrest. In Quito mounted troops broke up a demonstration of students and socialists shouting "Down with Plaza!" The President, following his policy of ignoring or minimizing plots, immediately ordered the release of students arrested in the demonstration, and requested that the judge assigned to the conspiracy trial free the defendants if there was any legal...