Word: arrested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personally, in penciled long hand, in the Library of Congress while his chief's first inaugural was in progress March 4, 1933. He recalled the hot legal battles of AAA and NRA; the building of the FBI from a sleuthing unit to an armed force with powers of arrest and a sharp-toothed Federal crime code behind it; the improvement of U. S. prisons, notably the creation of Alcatraz. With special pride he pointed to the new rules for civil procedure in Federal courts (TIME, Sept. 26), which the American Bar Association had for 25 years tried in vain...
Crimson--My, but you people are simple. Our humorous magazines never stay on the streets for more than half an hour. Every issue they arrest the board entire of the Lampoon...
...Paris the Jewish aunt and uncle of the assassin were arrested and it was revealed that just prior to the killing of vom Rath they were held under arrest for five days on suspicion of harboring an undesirable alien. Their papers were seized and the French Surete Generale probed to discover who really were the "intellectual originators" of the crime...
Tacoma's new Police Commissioner Holmes Eastwood announced that publicity given the arrest of a Texas cop-killer had helped his pal escape, handed down an order forbidding any member of his force to talk about or show records on "serious" crimes to Tacoma's two newspapers (Times, News Tribune & Sunday Ledger) and one radio news service (KMO). Reporters who had lolled for years on desks in the detective bureau were chased out as "loiterers...
...police were not able to arrest more of them. Such shocking behavior is a sad commentary on the brand of young men who are classed as intelligent. The heavy hand of the college discipline should fall broadcast for the good name of Harvard.--Boston Post...