Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hung out his shingle as a lawyer. Empire-building Cecil Rhodes had his eye on Smuts, intended to make him one of his young men. And Smuts, believing in Rhodes's dream of a united South Africa, was eager to follow-until the scandal of Jameson's Raid and the worse scandal of Rhodes's implication in it. Then Smuts shook the perfidious English dust from his feet, went north to join Kruger in the Transvaal...
Each one of the 603 agents and accountants of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is supposed to be ready day or night to "put his old clothes on'' (i.e., go out on a raid). John Edgar Hoover had been in the service 21 years when, fortnight ago, for the first time he put on his old clothes (TIME, May 11). When he took them off ten days later, the Bureau had closed all the 62 kidnapping cases undertaken since the passage of the Lindbergh...
...sooner had he personally directed the raid in which murderous Alvin ("Old Creepy'') Karpis was seized than Director Hoover flew the scrawny captive to St. Paul, left him to be tried for the $100,000 kidnapping of Brewer William Hamm, hurried back to Washington. Last week Director Hoover swooped down on Toledo, Ohio, led a dozen agents to an apartment house at dawn, captured Karpis' fellow gangster, crippled Harry Campbell...
...admit," he roared, "that she has been carrying on the war other than in the most humanitarian way possible-under the circumstances." Under the startled nose of President Huber the Italian Dictator napped an elaborately illustrated booklet showing the mutilated bodies of Italian road builders caught in a raid last February. "This is how Ethiopia treats her prison ers," thundered Benito Mussolini. "What reliance can we place in her guarantees?" Embarrassed President Huber had not even a chance to take up the charge that was outraging Britain last week. No sooner had blackshirt troops under ebullient Fascist Achille Starace touched...
...more than a little hampering to Ralegh. While he had it. she refused to let him endanger his precious skin. While less valued sailors were chivying Spain's great Armada to its doom. Ralegh was kept chafing in London. When Sir Richard Grenville sailed on his fatal raid against the Azores, Ralegh was recalled at the last minute. But Ralegh lost Elizabeth's favor for good when she discovered his secret marriage. She sent the tactless pair to the Tower, then banished them to the country in disgrace. Although he paid a gigantic fine Ralegh was not allowed...