Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury sat ruddy John Wesley Hanes, Under Secretary, brooding over the dropping British pound, the effect of a war on U. S. money, the certain crashing raid by foreign security holders on the "thin" market of the New York Stock Exchange. Hanes, a positive, bluff, solid man, oddly inconsistent with the cold background of his Treasury office-icy-eyed portraits of former Secretaries, ancient shiny red-plush drapes, a cool white-marble mantel-arrived every morning last week at 7 a.m. (noon in London) to telephone his boss, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. in Finland, Sweden, Norway; to telephone...
Last week's staggering crises, diplomatic reversals, panics, had one plain effect on the Balkans. They sent citizens back to the simple nationalistic faith of their fathers like bombed refugees running for an air-raid shelter. Plain from Lake Balaton to the Black Sea, the trend was plainest in Hungary, where Hungarians had plenty of reasons for uneasiness: their...
...famed raid on Zeebrugge failed to rivet up the Bruges Canal, but it showed the world something and left Britain proud. When the diplomats have failed and the smoke gets thick, something happens to the blood of English men of action. Crecy, Blenheim, Waterloo, the Armada, Cape Trafalgar, Jutland have shown that it is not equipment but spirit which wins battles for Britain. It did not matter, therefore, that when King George VI, who personally owns more ships than anyone else in the world,* went out into the fog and drizzle in Weymouth Bay last week, what...
...winning their admiration, leading them into carnage at Port Hudson and damning the cowardly political generals who got sick on the eve of battles. But when Lillie discovered his deception, the only good impulse in his "emphatic and volcanic nature" disappeared. Plodding Captain Colburne saved the family in a raid, avoided in embarrassment the wiles of Lillie's aunt, finally won Lillie-in about the sense that the North won the South...
Last week Attorney General Earl Warren of California, an ambitious Republican in a Democratic regime, personally directed a raid against the gambling flotilla. Police launches visited and closed Texas, Showboat and Tango. But when Mr. Warren's men sought to board the Rex, they had to deal with Tony Stralla and his skipper, George Kirkham, a retired Navy officer...