Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME. Such a calamity would react upon your paper in that "news" might become scarce over night. On the other hand, picture the handicaps I might be forced to labor under, in any plans to destroy Wall Street: to lower the value of Florida real estate by a bombing raid and alas, worst blow of all, to deprive the Hearst publications and the fair State of California of the chance to shout "We told you so!" Fair play, mates...
John P. Frey, head of the A. F. of L.'s Metal Trades Department, who is stuffed with classic allusions and plumes himself on his polished delivery, was chosen to present the prosecution's case. He produced testimony that C. I. O. had encouraged industrial unions to raid their membership, introduced circulars and letters which showed that C. I. O. had been doing what all the world knew it had. Finally he gave a learned summation, accusing C. I. O. of being a "dual organization . . . engaged in defiant insurrection against the A. F. of L.," fortified his charge...
Died. Sir Lionel Phillips, 81, South African gold miner, longtime head of Rand Mines, Ltd.; in Capetown, Union of South Africa. In 1896 he and the late John Hays Hammond were condemned to death for complicity in the abortive Jameson Raid, freed after paying fines of $125,000 apiece...
...that, in case of emergency, operations will at once be directed not by civilian officials in Whitehall but by four British air marshals, charged respectively with bombers, fighters, coast-defense planes and spare or training ships. Since offense is now considered the only real defense against a major air raid on a great metropolis like London, the duty of Britain's bombers under rough & ready Air Marshal Sir John Miles Steel is presumably to get aloft as fast as possible and be raining Death on enemy towns before London can suffer too great loss...
...mining engineer, President Taft's most trusted confidant and adviser; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Mass. Hired by Cecil Rhodes in 1893 at his own terms, he successfully introduced deep-level mining in the Rand Gold Field, made money hand over fist. For his part in the Jameson raid into the Transvaal, he was sentenced to death, finally went free for a $125,000 fine...