Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese whose several thousand members usually get themselves into the papers only by periodic squabblings with their rivals, the On Leongs. Last week, the Hip Sing Tong made news in another way entirely. Simultaneously one night 50 agents of the Treasury Department's Narcotics Bureau conducted a nationwide raid in Chicago, San Francisco, Butte, Pittsburgh and New York. Result was a motley crew of 23 suspects who, according to the Narcotics Bureau's New York head, Major Garland Williams, had used the Tong as the framework of a nationwide narcotics ring doing $1,000,000 worth of business...
Organization and origin of last week's raid read like an early cinema scenario. In the latter part of 1936, a Narcotics Bureau agent-whom Major Williams refused to name last week on the grounds that it might cause reprisals-arrested a Chinese on a minor charge in Seattle. The culprit talked freely about a much more interesting compatriot named Chin Joo Hip in Butte, Mont. Chin Joo Hip, a wrinkled, cadaverous tongman with drooping white mustaches, received a call from the agent, who pretended to be the nephew of a rich Pacific Coast gangster. Presently they were fast...
Eugene D. Bronstein, former graduate student here, was killed in an air raid near Brunetta while fighting with the Spanish Loyalist forces last July, it was revealed recently...
...Tennessean's Alexander revealed that three of the original kidnappers, now Tennessee businessmen, without consulting their five companions, broke their 18-year silence only to help Columnist Alexander raise money for expensive operations to save 12-year-old Truman Jr., an infantile paralysis victim. By last week the raid of 1919 had ended well for all concerned: Writer Alexander had received $1,500 from the Satevepost; 90-lb. Buddy Alexander, after two excruciating spinal operations and a blood transfusion from his father, was in a Manhattan hospital, encased in 125 pounds of plaster, grinning and beginning a recovery scheduled...
...read off without a single mispronounced word and with few hesitations the Speech from the Throne, thus opened the first Parliament of the new reign. The 18-minute speech, composed as usual by the Cabinet, promised that His Majesty's Government will: press on with Rearmament; speed air raid precautions; inaugurate penal law reforms; regulate the coal mining, electric power, milk and whitefish industries ; combat stock frauds; add judges to unjam the divorce courts; publicize the health services; expand housing; regulate the working conditions of truck drivers and raise the efficiency of the United Kingdom's fire brigades...