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Word: arresting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Local and state police continued their search yesterday for a burglar who evaded arrest after vainly attempting to force open a safe at George's Cottage Grill on Holyoke Street last Wednesday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thief Still at Large | 4/26/1949 | See Source »

...night before Reggie bore him a baby, Timothy. His ostensible employment was that of an ice man. With that other, ever-loyal functionary, Willie Schneiderman,* he tried to organize the waterfront, and began to attract the attention of party headquarters in New York. He was charged with resisting arrest during a melee in Los Angeles' Plaza. Then during an unemployment demonstration he waved a placard reading, "Defend the Soviet Union," and got a sentence of $500 fine and 180 days in jail. Frankie almost became a martyr then, but the party had other plans for him. On orders, Frankie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Little Commissar | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...repeat the following: "Who was that lady I saw you with last night? That was no lady, that was my wife." This should tie up traffic as far as Watertown. And, as it is a slur not only on Womankind, but, by extension, on Motherhood as well, I expect arrest. Constant Reader

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

Miss Driscoll urged police to arrest teenage offenders, but her main attack was against the taverns serving them. She declared that police would no longer accept excuses from propriotors who say they were hoodwinked by minors with false birth certificates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Age Fakers Get Patrol Ride From Tavern to Station | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...that as mayor he had accepted a quarter of a million dollars in gifts from a friend. Chief Investigator Judge Samuel Seabury charged that Jimmy had let corruption rot his administration. (At the start of the investigations, Jimmy was caught in a police raid on a gambling casino, escaped arrest by pulling on a waiter's apron and sitting down to a plate of beans in the kitchen.) In September 1932, with Walker's sudden resignation, hearings on the charges came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. New York | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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