Word: raided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They say that Poincare told Chiappe to raid the peep shows because the Government thought they were giving Paris a bad name. Most of them were run by Algerians or Levantines or Greeks. Of course Chiappe hasn't interfered with the regular, licensed-maisons kept and patronized by the French themselves. He has been out after the tourist show places...
...June evening that the Democrats of the land were nominating New York's wet Governor for President, those whose duty it is to enforce Prohibition in the land consummated a multilateral raid, said to be the result of months of preparation, on 18 of New York City's flashiest, dashiest, most expensive nightclubs (TIME, July 9). Last week, 45 more of the district's 20,000-odd nightclubs and speakeasies were proceeded against. Also, last week, the persons made defendants by the first raids were indicted. The Federal activity began to spread to roadhouses in New York...
...they may not expect dividends of any such size. Paternal Amadeo Peter Giannini, creator of Bancitaly, fears speculation in his stocks, dislikes inflated values, foresaw the bear raid which last spring brought Bancitaly crashing from 223 to a low of 100. At in, Wall Street holds Bancitaly sound, unlikely to suffer another shakedown...
Echoes of the shots were heard many miles from Albany. This had been no ordinary Prohibition raid. A very definite understanding had existed between the Federal agents and Boss O'Connell. If not molested, "The Gut" had promised to restrain itself from too-overt alcohol smugglings and rowdy boozings. Following the political tirades of Theodore Roosevelt the younger that a slimy trail of vice and corruption had crawled "to the very steps of the State Capitol," Boss O'Connell and his friends had been "making character" for the sake of Governor Smith...
Commissioner Doran, Administrator Campbell and Mrs. Willebrandt, who is a red-hot Hooverizer, denied any political connection between the raid and the Smith nomination...