Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ominous fact was that the raid had taken place at all. It meant that the Italian force had won a crucial victory over Haile Selassie's own well-trained private guard, that Marshal Badoglio, hitherto scrupulously careful to avoid treading on French or British toes with an attack on Addis Ababa, was willing to risk everything again in a furious attempt to end the war before the Little Rains descended and bogged his armies in inaction...
Shortly thereafter Harry Van recalls that he and Irene once spent a night together in the Governor Bryan Hotel in Omaha. Neb. This reunion, plus some remarkable pyrotechnics indicating a bombing raid, ends the piece...
...Charles Ben Dalton. 83, law-abiding brother of the three notorious Dalton Boys, oldtime Western desperadoes whose exploits filled many a dime novel; in an insane asylum in Supply, Okla. Still living in Hollywood is Brother Emmett, who in 1892 participated in the Daltons' ill-fated Coffeyville, Kans. raid in which Brothers Bob and Grat were killed...
...Prague, Czechoslovakia, Columnist Westbrook Pegler summed up his impressions: ". . . The show served two very useful purposes. It prevented, for the time being at least, a brutal raid on the German Jews. ... It also vindicated the contention of those who opposed American participation that the Nazis could not be trusted to refrain from political and military propaganda...
...King Lobengula. As Premier, he next tries to get Transvaal, ruled by the Boers, sole white rivals to English supremacy. Foiled by the stolid smugness of Boer President Oom Paul Kruger (Oscar Homolka), Rhodes allows himself to be persuaded into using force. The resulting fiasco of "Jameson's Raid" forces him to resign all his high positions, lose his virtual dictatorship. Unbowed by defeat, he admits the wrong, dies quietly just as the Boer War is bringing true the Union of South Africa he always sought...