Word: raided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Margaret Sanger's recent visit to Cambridge recalls attention to a controversy which has had much prominence in the past few weeks. Almost simultaneously occured the raid on Mrs. Sanger's Birth Control Clinic in New York and the conviction of Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett for publishing a pamphlet simplifying sex problems for young people. Although in certain matters the police overstepped their authority in the clinic raid both actions were for the most part legal under the present statutes...
...which now was not moving rapidly enough toward victory to suit the strikers. The mills had hired other workers, continued partial operation. The strikers had grown hungry. Communist Organizers Fred Irwin Beal and George Pershing had dropped out of sight. Many an observer was ready to believe that the raid upon the Communist headquarters in Gastonia was made by disgruntled strikers, weary of the Communist leadership. No excessive effort was made by the National Guardsmen to find the raiders...
...Alphonsine Morin, across the street, saw two men, hands over head, walk out of the garage, followed by two uniformed policemen with leveled guns. Obviously a raid and an arrest. She watched captors and captives enter the blue car, which flashed down the street, passed a trolley on the wrong side, melted away in traffic...
While the Governor of Sonora, Mexico, had given permission to the Fimores raid, no statement was issued regarding his attitude toward a possible larger expedition. The situation was somewhat reminiscent, though on a much smaller scale, of General Pershing's 1916 entrance into Mexican territory in unsuccessful search for Bandit Villa. The Apaches sought are descendants of those Red Indians who under chieftain Geronimo were dispersed by General Miles, in whose force was one Surgeon Leonard Wood...
...only a travelog ?kinetic scenes of Mont Blanc projected on a screen in a gallery which rocked and swayed to simulate the movement of an observation car?but The Great Train Robbery was a real story that ran for twelve minutes. You saw the bandits riding on their raid, the station agent working in his office. "Hale's Tours" was in debt and Zukor told Brady that moving pictures would make up its losses. Backed by Brady, he started a chain of cinema "palaces" in Newark, Boston, Pittsburgh? empty stores made into theatres with crude stages and chairs bought...