Word: hunted
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...route to the Orient, a hold otherwise confined to the port of Aden across the Gulf and the island of Perim in the strait called Bab el Mandeb ("gate to the mandate"). To defend Somaliland, Britain had the Camel Corps, originally formed by British Marine officers to hunt Mohammed bin Abdullah, the "Mad Mullah" who for 20 years (1900-20) carried on a religious revolt until R. A. F. bombing planes drove him into Ethiopia. Chief gain for Italy in driving Britain from Somaliland would be prestige among the Arab peoples...
...police nor FBI, but the 200 operatives of the little Secret Service, whose other job is guarding the President & family, hunt counterfeiters in the U. S. Last week its parent department, the U. S. Treasury, announced that the S. S. had gone far toward cleaning them out. An educational campaign directed by hamhanded, sharp-nosed Frank John Wilson, S. S. Chief, has shown thousands of merchants how to distinguish the uneven engraving and threadless paper of counterfeit bills. An 18-minute movie named "Dan gerous Dollars" produced by the S. S., also telecast and made into a Paramount short...
...have been living on lies," declared Interior Minister Adrien Marquet to his countrymen in announcing the forthcoming trials as part of an extensive domestic moral purge. "The hour of truth has sounded. . . . The rapidity of our catastrophe upset you and then you sought those responsible. It was useless to hunt widely. . . . The day they come to trial, our dead will sit on the prosecutor's bench. In the name of justice, those guilty of such political errors and military ignorance will be punished...
Attired in the white silk Buster Brown shirt and leather knee pants of his Master-of-the-Hunt suit, Hermann Goring last week entertained in the vast study of his Karinhall hunting lodge Karl von Wiegand. Month before the No. 1 Hearst foreign correspondent had been given an exclusive interview with the No. 1 Nazi, Adolf Hitler, who wanted to get across the idea that the U. S. had nothing to fear from Germany. The story was neither widely published nor widely believed in the U. S. So the No. 2 Nazi now tried his hand at the same...
...Survivors of the British merchantmen King John (5,228 tons) and Davisian (6,433 tons), picked up near the West Indies last week, revealed the roving presence of an Axis raider-an armed merchantman, flying the Swedish flag-which sank their ships. R. N. at once started a painstaking hunt...