Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, a bartender was stabbed, 75 other of the city's half-million celebrants injured themselves in fights, falls, wrecks. And while householders and servants were racketing around the downtown streets during the pageants of Proteus, Rex & Comus, a platoon of sneak thieves took the opportunity to raid the residential district...
...freedom approximating liberty to libel and tempered only by the readiness of its editors to shut up if offered adequate bribes, the Government leaned over backward in solicitude for the feelings of Adolf Hitler. The Sarraut Cabinet drew a storm of French abuse upon itself by ordering gendarmes to raid the offices of Paris' potent Le Journal and seize all copies of its Sunday feature-smash entitled ''Hitler's Secret Loves'" as well as the German research material upon which this was based...
...offenders. In the next ten days the students of North Carolina vindicated the honor system with a ruthlessness and gallantry which left Tarheels wondering whether the system would survive the shock. First the investigators asked North Carolina's Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell whether they could legally raid the quarters of a suspect. The Attorney General said no. Regardless, they appealed to the police chief of Chapel Hill, got a warrant, staged a night raid on the apartment of tall, slight Douglas Cartland, graduate in the class of 1934, Phi Beta Kappa, potent ping pong player. Caught with...
...Still pending are Mo-Kan suits against Standard Oil of New Jersey and Cities Service and others for $150,000,000. Mr. Parish claimed that these companies engineered a bear raid on Mo-Kan stock, caused it to break from $36 a share to $15 a share on June 16, 1930. Mr. Parish had formed Frank P. Parish & Co. to sell shares in Mo-Kan and when the Mo-Kan market collapsed Underwriter Parish was stuck with large blocks of Pipeliner Parish's shares. Since he was financing his pipeline entirely through stock sales, no more sales meant...
These modern bucaneers, known as Legionaires and veterans, have only had their taste whetted by this recent legislation. Already other and more exhorbitant plans are being formulated. This outright looting of the nation has shaken many people's faith in democracy. Before the bonuseers begin another raid and shock the public conscience once again, before they start beating their tom-toms again, they would do well to reflect that it is only one step from a loss of faith in a lavish, undisciplined and unprincipled democracy to a loss of democracy itself...