Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trade, succeeding Harold Wilson; 49; handsome, suave lawyer; Dulwich College (in London), London School of Economics, University of Geneva; started electioneering for the Labor Party at 16; called to the bar in 1925; senior law lecturer, Liverpool University, 1927-34; served on government commissions (coal-mining inquiry, air-raid defense, etc.); chief British prosecutor at the Nurnberg trials; elected to Parliament, 1945; Attorney General...
Then, a month ago, ominous things began to happen at his bureau. One morning at dawn, A.P.'s young Czech translator, Tomas Svoboda, was whisked away in a police raid on his home. Shortly, two other Czech employees vanished. Last week on Sunday, worried Correspondent Oatis himself hurried into the U.S. embassy to report to the clerk on duty that he was being shadowed by Czech secret police 24 hours a day. Oatis said he would return next day. He did not return...
...Must Do Something." Pisciotta had a falling out with his chief. Some of their followers were being held for trial for the murder of May Day marchers at Portella della Ginestra (TIME, May 12, 1947). Pisciotta proposed a raid to save them. "We must do something for our friends," he urged. But Giuliano was hesitant. "There is little we can do," he said. "If, we allow our organization to be destroyed, our friends will have no hope." Giuliano made a gesture. He wrote a letter to the trial judge in which he took personal blame for the murders. Pisciotta...
Betting at the fights, say the authorities, runs to seven figures a year and purses of $5,000 are common. At a raid in El Centre last year, S.P.C.A. men found one bookie stuffing the stake on a single) bout into a 50-lb. nail keg and ramming the overflow down into the keg with his foot...
...tables at the Elks Club, where many of his own parishioners often sat down for a "friendly game." Said he: "Gambling is the same unlawful practice on the 300 and 400 block [where the Elks and Eagles clubs are located] as it is in the 500 block [where a raid had taken place]." Last week he took the police to raid the Elks, reaped a barrage of threats and anonymous phone calls (sample: "Is this the sewage company...